Nahum 3:18

"Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy nobles are at rest; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and there is none to gather them."

"Slumber ... rest ..." The mighty men of Assyria are dead. The judgment of God has fallen upon them. The thought that, "they slumber and take their ease"[37] is not in the passage. "Sleep" here "must be taken in the sense of death."[38]

"Scattered upon the mountains ..." Nineveh was shut in on the north by very rugged, impassable mountains. "None to gather them" shows the finality of their doom and the impossibility of their resurgence at some later period.