Nahum 3:18

King of Assyria, your shepherds are asleep; your rulers are lying down resting. 1 Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them. 1

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Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.

In Context

17Your princes are as many as the full-grown locusts, and your generals are like swarms of them 1 that camp in the walls on a cold day. 1 But when the sun rises they fly away to no one knows where. 1

19No healing is possible for your wounds. Your wounds are severe. 1 Everyone who hears the news about you will clap their hands in joy over you. 1 Who has escaped your constant wickedness?

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:17So Micaiah said, “I saw all Israel scattered to the mountains, like sheep who have no shepherd, and Yahweh said, 'These have no shepherd. Let every man return to his house in peace.'”

Isaiah 13:14Like a hunted gazelle or like a sheep with no shepherd, 1 every man will turn toward his own people and will flee to his own land. 1

Isaiah 56:9All you wild beasts of the field, come and devour, all you beasts in the forest! 1

Jeremiah 51:39When they become hot with greed, I will make a feast for them; I will make them drunk so they become happy, 1 and then sleep an unending sleep and not wake up—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1

Ezekiel 31:3Behold! Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, giving shade to the forest, 1 and the tallest in height, and the branches formed its treetop. 1

Ezekiel 32:22Assyria is there with all her assembly. Her graves surround her; 1 all of them were killed by the sword. 1

Matthew Henry on Nahum 3:9-19

The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 8 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? 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. 10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. 11… Read the whole commentary →

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