^{8 Ref} Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?

^{9 Ref} Ethiopia was her strength and Egyptians without number; Put and Lubim were her helpers.

^{10 Ref} But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.