John Trapp on Nahum 3:2

Verſe 2. The noiſe of a whip, and the noiſe of the ratling of the wheels] A moſt elegant and lively hypotypoſis or deſcription, of the Chaldees coming to take Nineveh, Tam pulchra, ſaith Hierom, & picture ſimilis, ut omnis meus Jermo ſit vilior, ſo gallant and picture-like a repreſentation of an advancing Army, that no words of mine can come neer it. Virgil is commended for his excellent expreſſions, ſutable to the matter he treateth of. As when he ſets forth the cutting down of trees, by —Son a icta ſecuribus ilex: the ferrimans trade, by —fremit ictibus aerea puppis: the gliding of his boat, by —Labitur uncta vadis abies, &c. But all this is but dull ſhuffe to the divine Rhetorike here to be read. Let thoſe that refuſe to hear Gods ſweet words, fear leſt they be forced to hear the noiſe of the whip, the ratling of the wheels, &c Pſal. 7.12, 13. Luk. 19.42, 44. Prov. 1.24, &c. The enemy is ſent to revenge the quarrell of Gods Covenant: the red horſe is at the heels of the white, Rev. 6.4.