John Trapp on Nahum 3:10

Verſe 10. Yet was ſhe carried away, ſhe went into captivity] Whereof though there be no other record, yet we ought not to doubt of the truth, ſith it is here alledged by the holy Ghoſt, as a thing either done before, or ſhortly after to bee done, as may be probably gathered from Jerem. 46.25. Ezsk. 30.19, 21. compared with Jer. 20.28. and 44.49. To God (by reaſon of the vaſtneſſe of his being) all things are preſent. As he that ſtands on an high mountain, and looks down, though to the paſſenger that goes by, ſome are before, ſome behinde; yet to him they are all preſent: So here.

her young children alſo were daſhed in pieces, at the top of all the ſtreets] A terrible ſpectacle to thoſe that paſſed by: who were to look for little mercy, when children, in whom there is ſo little guile, or gall, and who are uſually favoured for their innocency, and ignoſcency, met with ſuch hard meaſure. See the Note on Hoſ. 13.16. Warre is an evil; Eſay 45.7. ſuch as no words (how wide ſoever) can ſufficiently ſet forth. Bellum à belluis.

and they caſt lots for her honourable men] whether ſo, for age or authority; the dice were caſt on them for ſlaves, as Obad. 11. A great alteration on the ſuden. Tamberlanes coach-horſes were conquered kings. Adonibezeks doggs, ſeventy kings, gatherings crumbs under his table. Sapores uſed the Emperour Valerian for a footſtool. Craeſus carried captive by Syrus, cries out, O Solon, Procop. lib. 2. de bello Vandal. O Solon. Gilimer led intriumph by Belliſarius, Vanity of vanities, all is vanity: and calls to him for a cruſt to relieve him, a cittern to ſolace him, and a ſpunge to dry his eyes with. Omnia ſunt hominum tenui pendentia ſilo: Et ſubito caſu, quae valuére, ruunt. Henry the fourth Emperour of Germanie, after ten years reigne, was depoſed; and by his enemies driven to that exigent, that he deſired onely a clerkſhip in an houſe at Spire, of his own founding; which was barbarouſly, by the Biſhop of that place, denied him. Our Henry the ſixth, that had been the moſt potent Monarch for dominions that ever England had, was, when depoſed, not the maſter of a Molehill,Dan. hiſt. 189 nor of his own liberty, but beaten, and wounded, &c. to ſhew that mortality is but the ſtage of mutability; when they that were brought up in ſcarlet embrace the dung-hils, Lam. 4.5.

bound in chains] not of gold, as Zenobia was; but of iron, as the word ſignifieth,