Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
Thou also shalt be drunken - made to drink of the cup of Yahweh's wrath (Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 51:21; Jeremiah 25:15).
Thou shalt be hid - covered out of sight: a prediction remarkably verified in the state in which the ruins of Nineveh have been found (G.V. Smith). Since "hid" precedes "thou also shalt seek strength," etc., Calvin in one place refers to Nineveh's state when attacked by her foe: 'Thou who now vauntest thyself shalt be compelled to seek a hiding- place from the foe.' But Maurer objects that, if it meant 'thou shalt hide thyself,' the Hithpael conjugation would be used. Therefore he translates, 'Thou shall be neglected and slighted by all, who wast once so celebrated.' I much prefer the English version, which is Calvin's view elsewhere, "Thou shall be hid" - i:e., according to the Hebrew idiom х na`ªlaamaah (H5956)], Thou shalt so vanish out of sight as though thou hadst not been. Referring to the double fact of Nineveh being as it were hidden out of sight of the foe, not daring to present herself to confront him, and also to her subsequent utter extinction, so that her very site was for ages unknown, until lately.
Thou also shall seek strength because of the enemy - thou too, like Thebes (Nahum 3:9), shalt have recourse to other nations for help against thy Medo-Babylonian enemy.