against thee] Such is the league, betwixt God and his people, that what is done against them he accounteth as done against himselfe, Acts 9:4. as stubble] That is, not for the particular manner of the destruction; (for stubble is consumed with heat of fire, these were overwhelmed in the water) but for the speedinesse, certainty, and unrecoverablenesse of their overthrow: as the Prophet Isaiah threatneth, Esa. 5. 24. * Isaiah 47:14.