If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, in which you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the jungle of the Jordan?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Horses. If thou hast been terrified at the threats of thy fellow-citizens, how wilt thou withstand those of Jerusalem? (Menochius) or he speaks to Juda, who would not be able to resist the Chaldeans, since the Philistines, had routed the Jews, though destitute of cavalry.
Jordan, or the nations of Ammon, on that side. (Calmet)
Protestants, "if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt "(Haydock)