John Trapp on Psalms 39:13

Verſ. 13. Hear my prayer O Lord, give ear, &c.] My prayer, my cry, my tears. See how his ardency in prayer grew by degrees, and ſo availed much, Jam. 5.16. we muſt riſe in our requeſts, pray, cry, weep, ask, ſeek, knock, let the Lord ſee that wee are in good earneſt; and then we may have any thing. Tears have a voice, and are very effectuall Oratours.

For I am a ſtranger with thee, and a ſojourner] And in that reſpect ſubject to many miſeries and moleſtations ſatanicall and ſecular, till I ſhall repatriaſſe get home (as Bernard expreſſeth it) and this was the condition of all my godly predeceſſors, who yet found favour with thee, and ſo I hope ſhall I.

Verſ. 13. O spare mee that I may recover ſtrength] Ut refociller, reficiar; Job maketh the like requeſt, chap. 10.20. Some breathing while they would have, and a time to recollect themſelves, before that laſt great encounter; They ſay in effect Differ, habent parvae commoda magna morae.

Before I go hence, and be no more] No more ſeen amongſt men. It is ſaid,Speed. 925. that Richard the third cauſed the dead corps of his two ſmothered Nephews to be cloſed in lead, and ſo put in a coffin full of holes and hooked at the ends with two hooks of Iron; and ſo to be caſt into a place called the black deeps, at the Thames mouth, whereby they ſhould never riſe up, nor be any more ſeen. Joſeph is not, and Simeon is not, Gen. 42.36. The Righteous periſh, Iſa. 57.1. when once I go hence, ſaith David here, viz. to my long home, Eccleſ. 12.5. there will be a Non ego, an end of mee as to this World; wherefore I beg a little reſpite.

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