John Trapp on Psalms 11:1

PSAL. XI.

VErſ. 1. In the Lord put I my truſt] This was that which David had and held, wherewith to anſwer him that reproached him (and it was an excellent good one) that hee truſted in Gods Word, Pſal. 119.42. When it was that he gave this anſwer, In the Lord put I my truſt (whether when Sauls courtiers,See the like Neh. 6.10. Luk. 13.31. under pretence of friendſhip, counſelled him to quit the Court for fear of Saul, which hee was very loth to do; or elſe when he was with Samuel at Naioth, 1 Sam. 19.18. &c. where his carnall friends might adviſe him, as Peter did his Maſter, Mat. 16.22. with a Fuge, fuge, David, cito, citius, citiſſime) is uncertain. But this is certain, that all the troops of ungodlineſs aime and act vigorouſly to caſt down the caſtle of confidence we have in God. This therefore we muſt be ſure to ſecure, as the Serpent doth his Head, the Souldier his Shield, Epheſ. 6.16. This is the victory whereby we overcome the World (with its Allurements, or Affrightments) even our faith, 1 Joh. 5.4. The beleever walketh about as a Conquerour; and he alone is the man whom the Heathen Poet elegantly deſcribeth, Juſtum & tenacem propoſiti virum, Non sivium ard or prava jubentium,Horat. Carm. lib. 3. Od 7 Non vult us inſtantis tyranni Mente quatit ſolida, &c. Si fractus illabatur orbis, Impavidum ferient ruinae.

The Poet inſtanceth in Hercules and Bacchus, but had he known of David, Moſes, Micaiah, Nehemiah, Daniel, and his three friends, &c. he would rather have pitched upon them, or ſome others of thoſe Worthies, of whom the world was not worthy, Heb. 11.

Flee as a Bird to your mountain] Get you gone, you and your followers (the Hebrew word Flee is plural) or flee to your mountain, O bird; ſee you not the Fowlers ſnare? and will you not away with all ſpeed? Thus they ſought to fright him (as Birds are fearful, Iſa. 16.2. and to make him flee from his place, as a Bird fleeth from her Neſt, Prov. 27.8. But he was never without his Cordial, the ſame that releeved him at the ſack of Ziglag, where, in the fail of all other comforts, he incouraged himſelf in the Lord his God, 1 Sam. 30.6. he knew that as birds flying, ſo will the Lord of Hoſts defend his people; defending alſo, he will deliver them, and paſſing over he will preſerve them, Iſa. 31.5. This, though it were not written in Davids days, yet he had the good aſſurance of it in his ſoul.