Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou [art] my strength.
Ver. 4. Pull me out of the net] That noted net, as the Hebrew hath it; Nam Zu denotat rem notam omnibus, saith Kimchi. David was not caught in it; but the enemies presumed he would be, so selling the hide before the beast was taken; as did likewise the proud Spaniards, when, coming against England in 1588, they triumphed before the victory, and sang,
Tu quae Romanas suevisti temnere leges,
Hispano disces subdere cells iugo.
But blessed be God, the net brake, and we escaped, Psalms 124:7 .
For thou art my strength ] As a tree is strongest at the root, and a branch or bough next the trunk or stock, and the farther it groweth out from thence the smaller and weaker it groweth too; so the nearer the creature is to God the stronger; and on the contrary.