And let it be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then you shall move quickly: for then shall the LORD go out before you, to strike the army of the Philistines.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Trees. Many translate the Hebrew, "mulberry trees "or leave the original word, becaim, "the heights of Bochim. "Septuagint seem to give a double version: "the sound of the agitation (or Alexandrian, "shutting up "(Haydock) as with an army on all sides) of the woods, of the lamentation. "(Menochius)
Theodoret supposes, "the woods put in motion, without any wind. "It is thought that an army of spirits went before David, and threw the enemy into a panic. Storms of hail, seem to have also cut them down, Isaias xxviii. 21., and Psalm xvii. 9.
