I have waited, &c.] (Psal. 25. & 130. 5. Isaiah 26:8.) This cometh in without any particular coherence with that which went before, or followeth after; motions of the spirit are not tied to rules of method, or Logicall order; and therefore must not be misliked as impertinent, because they are not led in by a series of precedent words or matter, which yet may have good coherence with silent and smothered thoughts, whence their expressions burst out; thence it is that in the writings of the inspired Pen-men we find such various mixtures of comminations and comfort, and as it were sudden ascents or precipices from the one to the other. for thy salvation] Jacob seeing the miseries that his posteritie should fall into, breaketh out in prayer to God for reamedie; and this he doth, as for them in generall, so especially in respect of this Tribe, which by the Spirit of prophecie he foresaw in a double danger, both of great adversitie, Judges 1:34. and of grosse Idolatry, 1 Kings 12:29. and withall, having by the same spirit an apprehension of the Messiah, or Saviour under the name of Shiloh, his soule no doubt thirsted for the accomplishment of his salvation and full deliverance from all trouble by his meanes and merit; for the Fathers before Christ had none other Rock of salvation then Christians since his coming, 1 Corinthians 10:3-4.