Nahum 3:18

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:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Thy shepherds—that is, Thy leaders.

slumber—are carelessly secure [MAURER]. Rather, "lie in death's sleep, having been slain" [JEROME] (Exodus 15:16; Psalms 76:6).

shall dwell in the dust— (Psalms 7:5; Psalms 94:17).

thy people is scattered—the necessary consequence of their leaders being laid low (I Kings 22:17).

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