Nahum 3:3
The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
The lifted weapons describe mounted soldiers pressing forward while raising flashing blades and gleaming shafts for attack. The heaps of killed and lifeless forms describe an innumerable toll of the dead scattered in every direction, without limit, until survivors trip and falter over the piled bodies. This carnage stands within Nahum's formal charge against Nineveh as a bloodstained city, marking it as facing God's declared resistance and punitive sentence because of its wickedness.
The scene belongs to Nineveh's last ruin following renewed rebellion, for when ruin was first threatened its people turned in repentance and the blow was held back, yet afterward they reverted to idol worship until their guilt rose to heaven and their ruin arrived. That outcome proves that God intends exactly what He declares, so that merciful postponement of a threatened penalty does not annul the penalty. It proves likewise that a continual growth of wrongdoing after repentance makes final collapse unavoidable.