John Trapp on Nahum 2:8

Verſe 8. But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water] Like a fiſh-pool of water, [non-Latin text not transcribed] and therefore happy: The word here uſed for a pool, or pond, ſignifieth alſo a bleſſing. The Pope was wont to ſay of England, that it was puteus inexhauſtus, his pit that could not be drawn dry. Such a pit, or pool was Nineveh. Populous, wealthy, potent, &c. Eſay 8.7. the Magazine of the whole Eaſt, a rich Cargazon, Turk. hiſt. 843. and not unlike the Iſland Cyprus, anciently called, Macaria, that is, bleſſed, for the plenty, proſperity, and pleaſure there abounding. This invited the Romans to ſubdue it: as the pearls uſually caſt out at the flood, and gathered at the ebbe,Sext. Ruf. Sueton. in vit. Caeſa. cap. 47. drew Caeſars affection for the conqueſt of Britain: and as Nineveh's fiſh-pool did the Chaldean fiſhermen. The greater wealth, the greater ſpoil awaiteth a people, or perſon, Prov. 1.19. As if a tree hath thick and large boughes, every man deſires to be lopping of it. Nineveh's antiquity is here alſo noted. Of old, or, of a long time ſhe hath been Empreſſe of the Eaſt; She was the ſeat of the firſt Monarchy, which ſhe alſo held longeſt of any, even above thirteen hundred yeers. Howbeit this ſhall be now no protection to her, but an article, or an argument againſt her, that ſhe is an old ſinner, and hath been long time heaping up, and hoarding the mammon of unrighteouſneſſe.

yet they ſhall flee away] as waters do when the banks of a pond are broken down: and as fiſh do, when the water is drawn out, or dried up: then they friggle any way. So ſhall the Ninevites flee away, when their city is once broken: pugnae obliti, priſtinaeque virtutis.

Stand, ſtand, ſhall they cry] Their own Commanders, deſirous to rally them: or their enemies, deſirous to ranſack them, and make prize of them: Sed ſurdo fabulam.

but none ſhall look back] Or, cauſe them to turn. Nemo poteſt eos reſupinare: their hearts are fallen into their heels, and they have much more mind to ſave themſelves by flight, then by fight.