The river gates are opened, and the palace melts away—poetic language suggesting both literal breaching of Nineveh's water-based defenses and the metaphorical dissolution of Assyrian power and prestige. The destruction of palatial structures symbolizes the toppling of the kingdom itself; what seemed eternal and fixed simply vanishes before the onslaught of judgment. The image conveys both the physical destruction and the sudden reversal of fortune.

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