This psalm is ascribed to David as his own composition (though it is outside the number ), after he had fought in single combat with Goliath. I was small among my brothers, and the youngest in my father’s house; I tended my father’s sheep. My hands made a harp; my fingers fashioned a lyre. And who will tell my Lord? The Lord himself; it is he who hears. It was he who sent his messenger and took me from my father’s sheep, and...