But Nineveh [is] of (g) old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, [shall they cry]; but none shall look back.
(g) The Assyrians will flatter themselves and say that Nineveh is so ancient that it can never perish, and is as a fishpool, whose waters cannot be touched by those that walk on the banks. But they will be scattered, and will not look back, even if men call them.