Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Ver. 23. Which I have reserved against the time of trouble] Or, against the time of the enemy to punish him, as Exodus 9:24 Jos 10:11 Isaiah 30:30. By deep snows men are sometimes withered and destroyed; by violent hail stones and coals of fire. as Psa 18:13-15 What an overthrow was procured against the Quades by the prayers of the thundering legion, as they were afterwards called in the days of Aurelius the emperor! Ingens grando compluraque fulmina in hostes ceciderunt, Huge hail stones and many lightning bolts fell upon the enemy, saith the heathen historian (Dio in Vit. Ant. Phil.).
Against the day of battle and war?] When God is pleased to bring forth his upper and lower troops ready pressed, as the Rabbis phrase it.