John Trapp on Habakkuk 3:19

Verſe 19. The Lord God is my ſtrength] And hence his joy of ſaith, and ability to beare up under preſſures of afflictions as a man that is well lined within, and hath abundance of good blood and freſh ſpirits, can endure to go with leſſe cloths then another &c.

And he will make my feet like hindes feet] As theſe do ſwiftly and ſuddenly run up to the top of inacceſſible rocks, ſo ſhall I quickly eſcape out of trouble, and walk upon mine high places againe in the holy land: Yea as Jacob after he had converſed with God at Bethel,Gen. 29.1. lift up his feet and went luſtily on his way to Padan-Aram, ſo ſhall I go lightly on my long journey to heaven; and, having my ſoule ſuppled with the oyle of ſpirituall joy, I ſhall find it made more lith, nimble and ready to every good work.

to the chief-muſitian on my ſtringed inſtruments] This is David-like indeed, as in the whole prayer or long he reſembleth that ſweet ſinger of Iſrael: and the verſe hath cauſed a cloud. Euthymius ſaith of David, that he was Primi regis & linguae & cor & calamus, the tongue, hart, and pen of almighty God. In the primitive times, happy was he held that could repeate aliquid Davidicum, any thing of Davids doings. Our king Alured tranſlated the Pſalter himſelf into his own Saxon tongue. Andromicus the Greek Emperour made it his manuall, his Vade-mcum. It appeareth by the contexture of this whole chapter, that the Prophet Habakkuk was well verſed in the Pſalms, which is a ſweet field and Roſary of promiſes, a Summary of the old Teſtament ſaith Luther: the good ſoules Soliloquie, ſaith Another; wherein are Amulets of comfort more pleaſant then the pooles of Heſhbon, more glorious then the tower of Lebanon, more redolent then the oyle of Aaron, more fructifying then the dew of Hermon &c. Moſt worthy to be laid up in that Perſian casket embroydered with gold and pearle which Alexander reſerved for Homers Iliads. Our Prophet as he partly imitated, and partly tranſcribed them in this Canticle, yea in this verſe (Confer Pſalm. 18.33, 34.) So he concludeth as David many times beginneth, To the chief-chaunter or Muſick-maſter, or To him that excelleth, ſc: in the art of ſinging and playing on Inſtruments, thoſe holy Levites whoſe charge it was 1 Chron. 9.33. and for whom he doubted not but God would afford and provide new matter of Pſalmody, by compaſſing his people about with ſongs of deliverance, Selah Pſal. 32.7.