For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
Ver. 15. As a reed is shaken in the water.] That never resteth, being in continual motion by wind and water, see 1 Samuel 25:29; the soul of a wicked man is "in a sling," violently tossed with infinite turmoils and restless.