Nahum 3:19

Nahum 3:19

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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bruit—the report.

clap the hands—with joy at thy fall. The sole descendants of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians in the whole country are the Nestorian Christians, who speak a Chaldean language [LAYARD].

upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?—implying God's long forbearance, and the consequent enormity of Assyria's guilt, rendering her case one that admitted no hope of restoration.

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