John Trapp on Nahum 2:13

Verſe 13. Behold I am againſt thee] Ecce me contra[illegible: 1 letter]te: Behold I, Hoc ecce non excitat modo ſed perterrefacit. who am of my ſelf a whole Army of men, Van and Rcare both, Eſay 52.12. I am againſt thee, ſaith the Lord of Hoſtss, who have all creatures at command if need were, as Auxiliaries: and can arm your own forces againſt you, ſheath your own ſwords in your own bowels. Wo be to rhoſe that have God againſt them. The Tigurine rendreth it, En me tibi hoſtem, &c. Deus ſerierum.

and I will burn her charets in the ſmoke,] That is, ſaith Danaeus, I will burn all their munition, and furniture for warre, with a moſt bitter and ſoft fire, that they may be the more grieved, and the more tormented thereby. Others, by ſmoke underſtand the ſuddenneſſe of the judgement q. d. No ſooner ſhall my wrath begin to kindle,Calvin. but I will conſume them: prime impetu, ſo ſoon as ever the flame beginneth to break forth, or rather, before. By charets may be alſo meant, thoſe that were carried in them. The Hebrew gloſſe here is, By ſmoke, that is, by a fire whoſe ſmoke is ſeen afarre off. See Judg. 20.40. Such ſhall be the fire of the laſt day, as A Lapide here noteth out of Hierom: when all the lions, and lions whelps, that is, all tyrants and oppreſſours ſhall be burnt, together with all their charrets, pompes, and meſſengers, ac imprimis corum dux & princeps Antichriſtus, and eſpecially Antichriſt their Captain, and Chieftain. He and his Jeſuites ſhall doubtleſſe then be caſt alive into a lake of fire, burning with brimſtone, Revel, 19.20. Let A Lapide note that.

and the ſword ſhall devour thy young lions! Thou ſhalt bring forth children to the murtherer: and thoſe that have taken the ſword (though never ſo young) ſhall periſh by the ſword, Mat. 26.52. As a Nettle ſtings betime, an Urchin is rough whiles young, and a Crab ſoon goes backward: ſo ſanguinary diſpoſitions will ſoon diſcover themſelves.

And I will cut off thy prey from the earth] Thou ſhalt be no further terrible, and troubleſome to the nations, whom thou haſt vexed and ſpoiled. Of Baldwin that Apoſtate, One ſaith, that when he died, deſiit ſimul maledicere & vivere, he ceaſed at once to live and to rail. And of our Henry 2. the Chronicler writeth, that in a great diſtemperature againſt his rebellious ſonnes, he departed the world, which ſo often himſelf had diſtempered. Nineveh the great huntreſſe was now under that wo, Eſa. 33.1.

and the voice of thy meſſengers] thy Heralds, by whom thou haſt proclaimed war, or made unreaſonable demands, or laid hard lawes upon other nations, or exacted grievous tributes, or publiſhed thy new victories, to keep people in awe, or laſtly, blaſphemed my great Name, as Rabſhakeh one of thy meſſengers will do, 2 King. 18.19. Theſe ſhall all be ſilenced, an end ſhall be put to them and thee.