“Assyria is there.
All its company is there.
Their graves are
All around it.
All of them killed,
Fallen by the sword.
Their graves are set
In the uttermost parts
Of the pit.
Its company
Is all around
Its grave.
All of them
Have been killed,
Fallen by the sword.
They had spread
Terror
In the land
Of the living.”
There apparently was a special place for the Assyrians in this pit or Sheol, the shadowy underworld of the afterlife. Somehow their graves were all around them, since they were all killed by the sword. Thus, their graves were set off in the uttermost parts of this pit. The Assyrian company armies were all around in graves also, since all of them had died by the sword. While they were living, they had spread terror. Now they were in the worst part of Sheol.
