Nahum 2:7
And 9Huzzab shall be 10led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, h*tabering upon their breasts.
And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.
9:
Or, that which was established, or, there was a stand made.
10:
Or, discovered.
h:
Isaiah 38:14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Isaiah 59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Luke 23:27 ¶And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
Luke 23:48 And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.
*:
tabering-beating, as on a tabor or drum.
this is variously taken, but the most probable guess is, that it is meant of the queen, who kept close in the palace, or temple, as where she might be most safe in the strength and supposed sacredness of the place.
without due respect to her royal dignity, shall be hurried into a strange land with other captives, and (as they) be exposed to danger and insolence.
ladies that waited on her in her royal state, now shall be her companions in captivity.
support their sorrowful, weary, and fainting queen, spent with such travel as she had not been used unto.
sighing out the complaints they durst not speak out.
these maids of honour should now in captivity strike on their breasts, but with such caution and fear of being discovered in their lamenting their state, as should be but like the noise of a taber lightly struck; or else, instead of musical instruments on which they were used to play, and to which they were used to sing, now they strike their own breasts, and sigh out their sorrows.