8  ^eAre you better than ^fThebes¹

that sat by the Nile,

with water around her,

her rampart a sea,

and water her wall?

9  Cush was her strength;

Egypt too, and that without limit;

Put and the Libyans were her² helpers.

10  Yet ^gshe became an exile;

she went into captivity;

^hher infants were dashed in pieces

at the head of every street;

for her honored men ⁱlots were cast,

and all her great men were bound in chains.