John Trapp on Psalms 35:13

Verſ. 13. But as for mee, when they were ſick] i.e. Any way afflicted, when they ayled any thing.

My cloathing was ſackcloath] I put my ſelf in mourners habit; Incedebam atratus, to teſtifie my good affection to ward them.

I humbled my ſoul with faſting] In die deſignato, in a ſolemn day ſet apart for the purpoſe; Kimchi. De Elia & jejunio cap. 8. as the a with a pathach ſheweth. Jejunium eſt humilit as mentis, miſerationis expenſa, charit at is illecebra, allevamentum infirmitatis, alimentum ſalut is, ſaith Ambroſe, Faſting is the affliction of the ſoul, the coſt of compaſſion, &c.

And my prayer returned into mine own boſome] i. e. Though they had no benefit by it, yet my ſelf had;2 Sam. 1.22. for no faithfull prayer is ineffectuall; like Jonathans bow, it never returneth empty. I received the fruit of my prayers for them upon my boſome.