⁸ Are you better than Thebes^[a]
    that sat by the Nile,
with water around her,
    her rampart a sea,
    water her wall?^(A)
9 Cush was her strength,
    Egypt, too, and that without limit;
    Put and the Libyans were her^[b] helpers.^(B)

¹⁰ Yet she became an exile;
    she went into captivity;
even her infants were dashed in pieces
    at the head of every street;
lots were cast for her nobles;
    all her dignitaries were bound in fetters.^(C)