The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.