Nahum 3:18

Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria! Your officers are slumbering! Your people are scattered like sheep on the mountains and there is no one to regather them!

1 Kings 22:17

Micaiah said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, 'They have no master. They should go home in peace.'"

Psalm 76:5-6

The bravehearted were plundered; they "fell asleep." All the warriors were helpless.

Isaiah 13:14

Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.

Jeremiah 50:18

So I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, say: 'I will punish the king of Babylon and his land just as I punished the king of Assyria.

Jeremiah 51:57

"I will make her officials and wise men drunk, along with her governors, leaders, and warriors. They will fall asleep forever and never wake up," says the King whose name is the Lord who rules over all.

Exodus 15:16

Fear and dread will fall on them; by the greatness of your arm they will be as still as stone until your people pass by, O Lord, until the people whom you have bought pass by.

Isaiah 47:1

"Fall down! Sit in the dirt, O virgin daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground, not on a throne, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called delicate and pampered.

Isaiah 56:9-10

All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!

Jeremiah 51:39

When their appetites are all stirred up, I will set out a banquet for them. I will make them drunk so that they will pass out, they will fall asleep forever, they will never wake up," says the Lord.

Ezekiel 31:3-18

Consider Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches, like a forest giving shade, and extremely tall; its top reached into the clouds.

Ezekiel 32:22-23

"Assyria is there with all her assembly around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword.

Nahum 2:5-6

The commander orders his officers; they stumble as they advance; they rush to the city wall and they set up the covered siege tower.

Revelation 6:15

Then the kings of the earth, the very important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

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Summary

Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.

Bible References

Thy shepherds

Nahum 2:6
The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves.
Exodus 15:16
Fear and dread will fall on them; by the greatness of your arm they will be as still as stone until your people pass by, O Lord, until the people whom you have bought pass by.
Psalm 76:5
The bravehearted were plundered; they "fell asleep." All the warriors were helpless.
Isaiah 56:9
All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!
Jeremiah 51:39
When their appetites are all stirred up, I will set out a banquet for them. I will make them drunk so that they will pass out, they will fall asleep forever, they will never wake up," says the Lord.

O king

Jeremiah 50:18
So I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, say: 'I will punish the king of Babylon and his land just as I punished the king of Assyria.
Ezekiel 31:3
Consider Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches, like a forest giving shade, and extremely tall; its top reached into the clouds.
Ezekiel 32:22
"Assyria is there with all her assembly around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword.

Nobles

Isaiah 47:1
"Fall down! Sit in the dirt, O virgin daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground, not on a throne, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called delicate and pampered.
Revelation 6:15
Then the kings of the earth, the very important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

Thy people

1 Kings 22:17
Micaiah said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, 'They have no master. They should go home in peace.'"
Isaiah 13:14
Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.

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