She, too, was meant for exile; she went into captivity. Her own children also came to be dashed to pieces at the head of all the streets; and over her glorified men they cast lots, and her great ones have all been bound with fetters.”​—Nah. 3:8-10.

Nothing could save Nineveh either. She had made such a bad record for herself through her wars and alliances that her fall would be greeted with jubilation. “All those hearing the report about you,” wrote Nahum, “will certainly clap their hands at you; because upon whom was it that your badness did not pass over constantly?”​—Nah. 3:19.

In fulfillment of Nahum’s prophecy, Nineveh fell to the combined forces of Babylonian King Nabopolassar and Cyaxares the Mede in 632 B.C.E. The Babylonian Chronicles state: “The great spoil of the city and temple they carried off and [turned] the city into a ruin-mound.”