Take millstones(A) and grind(B) flour;
    take off your veil.(C)
Lift up your skirts,(D) bare your legs,
    and wade through the streams.

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Your nakedness(A) will be exposed
    and your shame(B) uncovered.
I will take vengeance;(C)
    I will spare no one.(D)

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“I am against(A) you,” declares the Lord Almighty.
    “I will lift your skirts(B) over your face.
I will show the nations your nakedness(C)
    and the kingdoms your shame.

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Are you better than(A) Thebes,(B)
    situated on the Nile,(C)
    with water around her?
The river was her defense,
    the waters her wall.

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Cush[a](A) and Egypt were her boundless strength;
    Put(B) and Libya(C) were among her allies.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:9 That is, the upper Nile region

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