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- Nahum speaks to the people of Nineveh as though they were the city itself. (See: en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_apostrophe)
- Yet - This continues the comparison of Nineveh and Thebes from :en:bible🎶nam:03:08. Possible meanings: "nevertheless" (See: UDB) or "even so"
- Thebes - the former capital of Egypt, which the Assyrians had conquered
- she...her - Thebes.
- dashed in pieces - The invaders killed the children of Thebes as easily as one breaks a clay pot. (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor)
- bound in chains - put into slavery. AT: "became slaves" (See: en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_metonymy)