John Trapp on Psalms 30:8

Verſ. 8. I [illegible: 1 span], O Lord, &c.] For why? I felt my ſelf [illegible: 1 span] while that I was deſerted, in a kind of Hell above-ground. Hac tentatio initium aliquod & guſtus fuit illorum inenarr abilium dolorum quos impii ſentiunt in omni aternitate. David felt himſelf now in the ſuburbs of Hell, as it were; and doth therefore ſet up as loud a cry after God, as once Micah did after his mawmets, Judg. 18. and farre greater cauſe he had.

And to the Lord I made ſupplication] He knew that the ſame hand alone muſt cure him that had wounded him; neither was Gods favour recoverable, but by humble confeſſion, and hearty prayer. Some think to glide away their groans with games, and their cares with cards; to bury their terrours and themſelves in wine and ſleep. They run to their muſick with Saul, to building of Cities with Cain, when caſt out of Gods preſence, &c. ſed haret lateri lethalis arundo; but as the wounded Deer that hath the deadly arrow ſticking in his ſide, well he may frisk up and down for a time, but ſtill he bleedeth, and will ere long fall down dead: ſo it is with ſuch as feek not comfort in God alone, as make not ſupplication to Him for Him; as return not to God who hath ſmitten them, nor ſeek the Lord of Hoaſts, Iſa. 9.13.