that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face.(1077) The Lord cometh
to avenge the cruelties done to Jacob and to Israel. I hear already the
noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the
prancing horses, and of the bounding chariots.(1078) The horseman lifteth
up both the bright sword, and the glittering spear. The shield of his
mighty men is made red; the valiant men are in scarlet.(1079) They shall
seem like torches, they shall run like the lightning. God is jealous; the
Lord revengeth, and is furious.(1080) The mountains quake at him, and the
hills melt, and the earth is burnt at his presence: who can stand before
his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? Behold,
I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts: I will strip thee of all thy
ornaments.(1081) Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for
there is no end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant
furniture.(1082) She is empty, and void, and waste. Nineveh is destroyed;
she is overthrown; she is desolate. The gates of the rivers shall be
opened, and the palace(1083) shall be dissolved.(1084) And Huzzab shall be
led away captive; she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as
with the voice of doves tabring upon their breasts. I see a multitude of
slain, and a great number of carcasses; and there is no end of their
corpses; they stumble upon their corpses.(1085) Where is the dwelling of
the lions, and the feeding places of the young lions, where the lion, even
the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid:
where the lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for
his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with
rapine:(1086)(1087) The Lord shall destroy Assur.(1088) He shall
depopulate that city, which was so beautiful, and turn it into a land
where no man cometh, and into a desert. It shall be a dwelling place for
wild beasts, and the birds of night shall lurk therein. Behold, shall it
be said, see that proud city, which was so stately, and so exalted; which
said in her heart, I am the only city, and besides me there is no other.
All they that pass by her shall scoff at her, and shall insult her with
hissings and contemptuous gestures.

The two armies enriched themselves with the spoils of Nineveh; and
Cyaxares, prosecuting his victories, made himself master of all the cities
of the kingdom of Assyria, except Babylon and Ch