“‘Who can be compared with you in majesty?

“‘You are like a lion^(B) among the nations;
    you are like a monster^(C) in the seas^(D)
thrashing about in your streams,
    churning the water with your feet
    and muddying the streams.^(E)

⁸ 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.
⁹ Cush^[a](D) and Egypt were her boundless strength;
    Put^(E) and Libya^(F) were among her allies.
¹⁰ Yet she was taken captive^(G)
    and went into exile.
Her infants were dashed^(H) to pieces
    at every street corner.
Lots^(I) were cast for her nobles,
    and all her great men were put in chains.^(J)