24He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
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Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat. …
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-25)God, having displayed his own power in those creatures that are strong and despise man, here shows it in one scarcely inferior to any of them in strength, and yet very tame and serviceable to man, and that is the horse, especially the horse that is prepared against the day of battle and is serviceable to man at a time when he has more than ordinary occasion for his service. It seems, there was, in…
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