John Trapp on Psalms 60:11

Verſ. 11. Give us help from trouble] Give it us whenſoever we need it; as hitherto thou very graciouſly haſt done.

For vain is the help of man] As they had lately experimented in Saul a King of their own chuſing, but not able to ſave them from thoſe proud Philiſtines. No more could the Romans the Britans, oppreſſed by their Northern enemies. They ſent to Aetim the Roman Praefect of Gaul, and thus complained to him: The barbarous enemy beateth us to the Sea, the Sea beateth us back to the enemy;Dan. Chron. between theſe two kind of deaths we are either murthered or drowned, &c. But their implorations prevailed not: For Aetius at that time had enough to do to keep his own head, and Valentinian, the Empire. The Saints comfort is, that where human help faileth, divine beginneth, as Philo told his Country-men, when rejected by Caius the Emperour.