* 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.

  2:6  Ex 15:16  Ps 76:5,6  Isa 56:9,10  Jer 51:39,57 
 * O King.
  Jer 50:18  Eze 31:3-18  32:22,23 
 * nobles.  or, valiant ones.
  Isa 47:1  Re 6:15 
 * thy people.
  1Ki 22:17  Isa 13:14