12 “You also, O aEthiopians, will be slain by My sword.”
13 And He will astretch out His hand against the north
And cause bAssyria to perish,
And He will make cNineveh a desolation,
Parched like the wilderness.
14 Flocks will lie down in her midst,
All the beasts of the nation;
Both the apelican and the hedgehog
Will lodge in the tops of her pillars;
Their voice will sing in the window,
Ruin will be on the threshold;
For He has laid bare the cedar work.
15 This is the aexultant city
Which binhabits securely,
Who says in her heart,
“cI am, and there is no one besides me.”
How she has become an object of dhorror,
A resting place for beasts!
eEveryone who passes by her will hiss
And wave his hand in contempt.