The soldiers and people shall have no heart to appear for the defence of the city. Note, Guilt in the conscience will fill men with terror in an evil day, and those who place their happiness in the wealth of this world and set their hearts upon it think themselves undone when their silver, and their gold, and their pleasant furniture are taken from them. The Judgment of Nineveh. The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin. Here we have Nineveh's ruin, 1.
Fierce bears agree together.
Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts. Some understand it of the disabling of them for the future to prey upon their neighbours. Those are not worthy to be heard again that have once spoken reproachfully of God.