13He stretched out his hand against the North and destroyed Assyria and made Nineveh a desolation, a dry land like a wilderness.14Flocks will crouch in her midst—every wild animal of a nation. Also the qāʾāt, also the qappōd on her lintels will lodge. A voice sings in the window; desolate in the threshold. For cedar is stripped bare.15This is the exultant city that sits securely, the one saying in her heart, "I and none besides anymore." How she has become a desolation, a lying-place for wild animals! Every passerby over her will whistle and shake his hand.