Nahum 2:8

But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water “Id est, supra modum populosa, nam aquæ populi.” That is, above measure populous, for waters signify people. Grotius. Yet they shall flee away But they shall all flee for fear of the enemy, and run away like water: compare Psalms 58:7. Stand, stand, shall they cry, but none shall look back Their commanders shall call out to them to stand, but none shall pay any regard to them, or cease to flee. The Hebrew is peculiarly animated, and highly poetical. It is literally, Nineveh is as a pool of water: waters is she, and they run away: Stand, stand, but none looketh back. As if he had said, Their commanders might as easily stop the flowing waters by bidding them stand, as cause the Ninevites to stand to their arms and resist the enemy. The words allude to what was foretold Nahum 1:8, where see the note.