The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
Ver. 2. The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels] A most elegant and lively hypotyposis, or description, of the Chaldeans coming to take Nineveh; Tam pulchra, saith Jerome, et picturae similis, ut omnis meus sermo sit vilior; So gallant and picture like a representation of an advancing army, that no words of mine can come near it. Virgil is commended for his excellent expressions suitable to the matter he treateth of; as when he sets forth the cutting down of trees, by - Sonat icta securibus ilex; the ferryman's trade, by - fremit ictibus aerea puppis; the gliding of his boat, by - Labitur uncta vadis abies, &c. But all this is but dull stuff to the divine rhetoric here to be read. Let those that refuse to hear God's sweet words fear lest they be forced to hear the noise of the whip, the rattling of the wheels, &c., Psa 7:12-13 Luke 19:42; Luke 19:44 Proverbs 1:24. The enemy is sent to revenge the quarrel of God's covenant; the red horse is at the heels of the white, Revelation 6:4 .