## So it has been decreed  ##

"Yahweh has said this will happen"

## the queen is stripped ##

This can mean 1) "the soldiers take the queen's clothes off of her" or 2) "the queen has lost her authority" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

## the queen ##

This can be either 1) the queen of Assyria or 2) an idol of a goddess in the temple (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

## her female servants moan like doves ##

"the female servants of the queen sound like doves as they moan" to mourn her loss of power (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])