Genesis 10:11

11From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and

2 Kings 19:36

36Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and lived at aNineveh.

Jonah 3:2

2Arise, go to bNineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.”

Jonah 4:11

11And should not I pity cNineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much dcattle?”

Nahum 1:1

1 eAn oracle concerning fNineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.

Nahum 2

The Destruction of Nineveh

1 gThe scatterer has come up against you.
hMan the ramparts;
watch the road;
dress for battle;
Hebrew gird your loins

collect all your strength.
2 For jthe Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob
as the majesty of Israel,
for plunderers have plundered them
and kruined their branches.
3 The shield of his mighty men is red;
lhis soldiers are clothed in scarlet.
The chariots come with flashing metal
on the day he musters them;
the cypress spears are brandished.
4 mThe chariots race madly through the streets;
they rush to and fro through the squares;
they gleam like torches;
they dart like lightning.
5He remembers nhis officers;
othey stumble as they go,
they hasten to the wall;
the siege tower
Or  the mantelet
is set up.
6 qThe river gates are opened;
the palace rmelts away;
7its mistress
The meaning of the Hebrew word rendered  its mistress is uncertain
is tstripped;
Or exiled
she is carried off,
her slave girls vlamenting,
moaning like doves
and beating their breasts.
8 wNineveh is like a pool
whose waters run away.
Compare Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

Halt! Halt!” they cry,
but ynone turns back.
9Plunder the silver,
plunder the gold!
There is no end of the treasure
or of the wealth of all precious things.
10 zDesolate! Desolation and ruin!
aaHearts melt and abknees tremble;
acanguish is in all loins;
adall faces grow pale!
11Where is the lionsden,
the feeding place of aethe young lions,
where the lion and lioness went,
where his cubs were, with afnone to disturb?
12 agThe lion tore enough for his cubs
and ahstrangled prey for his lionesses;
he filled his caves with prey
and his dens with torn flesh.
13 aiBehold, I am against you, declares the Lord of hosts, and ajI will burn your
Hebrew her
chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and althe voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.

Nahum 3

Woe to Nineveh

1 Woe to amthe bloody city,
all full of lies and plunder
anno end to the prey!
2The crack of the whip, and aorumble of the wheel,
apgalloping horse and aqbounding chariot!
3Horsemen charging,
flashing sword and arglittering spear,
ashosts of slain,
heaps of corpses,
dead bodies without end
they stumble over the bodies!
4And all for the countless whorings of the atprostitute,
augraceful and of deadly charms,
who betrays nations with her whorings,
and peoples with her charms.
5 avBehold, I am against you,
declares the Lord of hosts,
and awwill lift up your skirts over your face;
and I will make nations look at axyour nakedness
and kingdoms at your shame.
6I will throw filth at you
and aytreat you with contempt
and make you aza spectacle.
7And all who look at you bawill shrink from you and say,
Wasted is bbNineveh; bcwho will grieve for her?”
bdWhere shall I seek comforters for you?
8 beAre you better than bfThebes
Hebrew No-amon

that sat bhby the Nile,
with water around her,
her rampart a sea,
and water her wall?
9 biCush was her strength;
Egypt too, and that without limit;
bjPut and the bkLibyans were her
Hebrew your
helpers.
10 bmYet she became an exile;
she went into captivity;
bnher infants were dashed in pieces
at the head of every street;
for her honored men bolots were cast,
bpand all her great men were bound in chains.
11 bqYou also will be drunken;
you will go into hiding;
bryou will seek a refuge from the enemy.
12All your fortresses are bslike fig trees
with first-ripe figs
if shaken they fall
into the mouth of the eater.
13Behold, your troops
btare women in your midst.
The gates of your land
are wide open to your enemies;
fire has devoured your bars.
14 buDraw water for the siege;
bvstrengthen your forts;
go into the clay;
tread the mortar;
take hold of the brick mold!
15There will the fire devour you;
the sword will cut you off.
It will bwdevour you bxlike the locust.
Multiply yourselves bylike the locust;
multiply bzlike the grasshopper!
16You increased cayour merchants
more than the stars of the heavens.
cbThe locust spreads its wings and flies away.
17 Your ccprinces are cdlike grasshoppers,
ceyour scribes
Or marshals
like clouds of locusts
settling on the fences
in a day of cold
when the sun rises, they fly away;
no one knows where they are.
18 Your shepherds cgare asleep,
O king of Assyria;
chyour nobles slumber.
Your people ciare scattered on the mountains
with none to gather them.
19There is no easing your hurt;
cjyour wound is grievous.
All who hear the news about you
ckclap their hands over you.
For clupon whom has not come
your unceasing evil?

Zephaniah 2:13-15

13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north
cmand destroy Assyria,
and he cnwill make Nineveh a desolation,
a dry waste like the desert.
14 coHerds shall lie down in her midst,
all kinds of beasts;
Hebrew beasts of every nation

cqeven the owl and the hedgehog
The identity of the animals rendered  owl and  hedgehog is uncertain

shall lodge in her capitals;
a voice shall hoot in the window;
devastation will be on the threshold;
for csher cedar work will be laid bare.
15This is the exultant city
ctthat lived securely,
that said in her heart,
I am, and there is no one else.”
What a desolation she has become,
cua lair for wild beasts!
cvEveryone who passes by her
hisses and cwshakes his fist.
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