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New American Standard Bible Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria; Your nobles are lying down. Your people are scattered on the mountains And there is no one to regather them.
King James BibleThy 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.
Holman Christian Standard BibleKing of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered across the mountains with no one to gather them together.
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Thy shepherds. That is, the rulers and tributary princes, who, as Herodotus informs us, deserted Nineveh in the day of her distress, and came not to her succour. Diodorus also says, that 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 succour 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 on ch.
Nahum 2:6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
Exodus 15:16 Fear and dread shall fall on them; by the greatness of your arm they …
Psalm 76:5,6 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none …
Isaiah 56:9,10 All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you beasts …
Jeremiah 51:39,57 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, …
O King.
Jeremiah 50:18 Therefore thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, …
Ezekiel 31:3-18 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and …
Ezekiel 32:22,23 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all …
nobles. or, valiant ones.
Isaiah 47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit …
Revelation 6:15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, …
thy people.
1 Kings 22:17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered on the hills, as sheep that …
Isaiah 13:14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man takes …
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