was written. All that can be said is that the motifs of the shepherd in the field and the host in the banquet hall, as well as the desire to commune with the LORD in the sanctuary, were all familiar to David. Other theories seem to be more imaginative. Kraus suggests that the setting is cultic since it focuses on the house of the LORD; he allows that it could be pre-exilic. He adopts the idea that the psalmist may have been unjustly accused and then acquitted. The meal in the psalm then would have