Nahum 3:8

Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile , with water around her, her rampart a sea , and water her wall ?

Are you better than Thebes, situated on the Nile, with water around her? The river was her defense, the waters her wall.

Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?