Nahum 3:18

"Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are."

Key Reflection

In Nahum 3:16-17, the locusts symbolize fleeting and unreliable protectors who provide no lasting security. Like swarms settling on walls in the cold but vanishing with the sun's warmth, these officials offer temporary comfort that ultimately disappears, highlighting the vulnerability and false assurance of those who are not true leaders or defenders.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Thy shepherds -that is, they who should counsel for the people’s good and feed it, and “keep watch over their flocks by night,” but are now like their master, the “King of Assyria,” are his shepherds not the shepherds of the people whom they care not for; these slumber, at once through listlessness and excess, and now have fallen asleep in death, as the Psalmist says, “They have slept their sleep”Psalms 76:6. The prophet speaks of the future, as already past in effect, as it was in the will of God.

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