Amos 2:15

stand i.e. keep his place, or halt in the flight:so Nahum 2:8; Jeremiah 46:21.

swift of foot For this virtue of a warrior cf. 2 Samuel 1:23; 2 Samuel 2:18 (the same expression as here), 1 Chronicles 12:8.

deliverhimself] As the text stands, himselfmust be understood from the next clause: but it is better, with a change of vowel-points, to read yimmâlçṭ, which will itself mean -deliver himself."