The shepherds with their flocks - The chiefs and their battalions. The invading army is about to spoil and waste all the fertile fields round about the city, while engaged in the siege.
To it shall come “shepherds with their flocks:”
They have pitched upon it “their tents round about:”
They have pastured each his hand, “i. e., side.”
The pasture is so abundant that each feeds his flock, i. e., plunders Jerusalem, at the side of his own tent.