“Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.”
You also will be drunken; you will go into hiding; you will seek a refuge from the enemy—Nineveh's fate parallels Thebes': stupor, concealment, and futile flight anticipate the city's desperate final hours. The imagery of drunkenness suggests both literal wine-fueled abandonment of reason and metaphorical delusion about Nineveh's security. Hiding and seeking refuge undermine the mythology of Assyrian invincibility.
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