Psalms 76:6

At thy rebuke Cp. Psalms 9:5; Psalms 18:15; Isaiah 17:13.

are cast into a dead sleep A word which denotes a deep, supernaturally caused slumber. It is usual to say that -chariot and horse" stand by metonymy for charioteers and horsemen: but surely poetry imagines chariots as well as horses to be alive. The "pransing horses" and the "bounding chariots" (Nahum 2:3-4; Nahum 3:2), all the rush and roar of the battle, are still and silent as the grave. Cp. Isaiah 43:17.