Nahum 3:18

16 You have multiplied your ^amerchants more than the stars of heaven.
The locust plunders and flies away.

17 ^aYour commanders are like swarming locusts,
And your generals like great grasshoppers,
Which camp in the hedges on a cold day;
When the sun rises they flee away,
And the place where they are is not known.

18 ^aYour shepherds slumber, O ^bking of Assyria;
Your nobles rest in the dust.
Your people are ^cscattered on the mountains,
And no one gathers them.

19 Your injury has no healing,
^aYour wound is severe.
^bAll who hear news of you
Will clap their hands over you,
For upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Thy shepherds slumber - That is, the rulers and tributary princes, who, as Herodotus informs us, deserted Nineveh in the day of her distress, and came not forward to her succor.

Diodorus Siculus says, lib. ii., when the enemy shut up the king in the city, many nations revolted, each going over to the besiegers, for the sake of their liberty; that the king despatched messengers to all his subjects, requiring power from them to succor him; and that he thought himself able to endure the siege, and remained in expectation of armies which were to be raised throughout his empire, relying on the oracle that the city would not be taken till the river became its enemy. See the note on Nahum 2:6.

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