Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man.
Ver. 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 choosing, but not able to save them from those proud Philistines. No more could the Romans the Britons, oppressed by their northern enemies. They sent Aetius, 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; between these two kinds of deaths we are either murdered or drowned (Dan. Chron.). But their implorations prevailed not; for Aetius at that time had enough to do to keep his own head, and Valentinian, the empire. The saint's comfort is, that where human help faileth Divine beginneth, as Philo told his countrymen, when rejected by Caius the emperor.