Verse 16
"Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm ravageth, and fleeth away."
"Above the stars of heaven ..." Nothing but a great swarm of locusts, or the stars of heaven, could be compared to the teeming population of Nineveh.
"The cankerworm ravageth, and fleeth away ..." This did not mean that the conquering army would ravage Nineveh and then go away, but that the locust-population of Nineveh itself, so long the ravaging power on the earth, would disappear, after the manner of all great locust plagues which come ultimately to their end.
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