John Trapp on Psalms 3:2

Verſ. 2. Many there be which ſay of my ſoul] Theſe ſcoffs and ſarcaſmes Leniter volant, non leniter violant. David felt them as a murthering weapon in his bones. Pſal. De patient. cap. 15. 42.3.10. and oft complaineth of them to God, Qui ſatis idoneus eſt patientiae ſequeſter, as Tertullian phraſeth it, who will ſee that his Saints ſhall loſe nothing by their patience.

There is no help for him in God] Salvation it ſelf cannot ſave him: he is at that paſs, that there is neither hope of better for him, nor place of worſe: there is no help, health, or deliverance for him at all. The Hebrew hath a letter more than ordinary, to increaſe the ſignification. R. David rendreth it, Nullum auxilium, nullum auxilium, there is no help, there is no help for him: and interpreteth it, neither in this world, nor in the world to come. Thus haply his enemies argued from his ſin in the matter of Ʋriab; concluding that God would not look at him therefore. But for that matter, he had ſoundly repented, and made his peace, 2 Sam. Ex tradit. Hebraeor. 12.13. & Pſal. 51.1, 2. though this preſent conſ piracy, and the trouble thereupon (which laſted ſix Months, ſaith Hierom) was a part of the temporal puniſhment of that ſcandalous ſin, 2 Sam. 12.10. But that it lay not upon his Conſcience, it appeareth, in that on his Death-bed he regrateth it not, as he did his not puniſhing of Joab and Shimei; concerning whom he therefore leaveth his charge with his Son Salomon, 1 King. 2.5, 8.

Selah] i.e.Plane, Tremel. Omnino, pe [illegible: 1 letter]itus, revra, Polan. [non-Latin text not transcribed] In truth, or Amen, ſaith Aben-Ezra. The Hebrews at this day accordingly adde to the end of their Prayers and Epitaphs, Amen, Selah, twice or thrice repeated. The Greek maketh it only a Muſical Notion.