Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
multiplied thy merchants— (Ezekiel 27:23-24). Nineveh, by large canals, had easy access to Babylon; and it was one of the great routes for the people of the west and northwest to that city; lying on the Tigris it had access to the sea. The Phœnicians carried its wares everywhere. Hence its merchandise is so much spoken of.
the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away—that is, spoiled thy merchants. The "cankerworm," or licking locust, answers to the Medo-Babylonian invaders of Nineveh [G. V. SMITH]. CALVIN explains less probably, "Thy merchants spoiled many regions; but the same shall befall them as befalls locusts, they in a moment shall be scattered and flee away." MAURER, somewhat similarly, "The licking locust puts off (the envelope in which his wings had been folded), and teeth away" (Nahum 2:9; compare Joel 1:4). The Hebrew has ten different names for the locust, so destructive was it.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Nahum 3:16:
Isaiah 47:15
Joel 1:4
Nahum 2:9
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