Matthew Poole and continuators on Nahum 2:10

10 She is empty and void , and wast , and the heart melteth , and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins , and the faces of them all gather blackness .

Nineveh taken, and under the proud insultings of the barbarous Souldiers.

Though once full of all store, yet now she is empty enough, many hands have been employed to spoil her.

Citizens are either slipt away, or carried Captives,

desolate, and shall continue so. Here is a threefold expression to ascertain the thing, and to intimate the greatness of Nineveh's desolation.

This Devastation hath broken the hearts of the Ninevites,

Not able to go steddily, ready to fall through weakness, and faintness of Spirits.

Acute pains and griefes caused by their troubles, losses, dangers, and frights

Which in those that are well, are their strength, and which to diseased, and broken bodies are the seat of pains and griefs.

Which were wont to be haughty, and scornful, and as it were sparkle with briskness of Spirit.

Now are clouded, sorrowful, and dejected, every one may see their desperate state in this Symptom.

Marginal references: Isa. 13.7, [illegible: 1 letter].; Dan. 5.6.; Joel. 2.6.