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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)