John Trapp on Psalms 83:16

Verſ. 16. Fill their faces with ſhame] By confounding their confidences, and blaſting their deſigns. They promiſed themſelves a triumph, but let them have the canvaſs.

That they may ſeek thy name O Lord] Ut in viti cogantur quis ſit tam potens Jehovah rogitare, that they may even in deſpight of their heads, be compelled to inquire after thee. It is ſtoried of Sennacherib, that after the deſtruction of his huge army at Jeruſalem, demanding of ſome about him what might be the reaſon that the unreſiſtable God of Heaven ſo favoured the Jewiſh Nation as he had found by ſad experience?Bib. Caſtal, Tabul. anſwer was given that Abraham from whom they defended, ſacrificed unto him his only Son, which purchaſed this Protection to his poſterity. If that will win him, ſaith Hee, I will ſpare him two of my ſons, to procure him to be on my ſide; which Sharezer and Adrammelech his ſons hearing of, prevented their own deaths by his.