“And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.”
It is decreed: the city is taken, stripped, and carried away; her slave girls moan like doves, beating upon their breasts—the capture results in enslavement and lament, reversing Nineveh's role as conqueror-nation. The feminization of Nineveh and the description of captive women mourning emphasizes the totality of reversal: the mighty imperial city becomes a captive people. The pathos of the imagery makes the theological point through emotional weight.
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