18. King of Assyria, your shepherds slumber;your nobles lie down to rest.Your people are scattered on the mountainswith no one to gather them.
19. Nothing can heal you;your wound is fatal.All who hear the news about youclap their hands at your fall,for who has not feltyour endless cruelty?Footnotes for the Book of Nahuma In Hebrew texts 2:1-13 is numbered 2:2-14.b 3 Hebrew; Septuagint and Syriac ready; / the horsemen rush to and fro.c 7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.