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Psalms 1–89: The Lord Saves is unavailable, but you can change that!

A Psalm is basically a poem set to music and sung. This sets the book of Psalms apart from other Scripture. You will find other Psalms and songs scattered throughout scripture—some are also used for worship—but they tend to be part of a narrative. Because people think of the Psalms purely as a songbook, they have tended to overlook them as a place to look for teaching, and many have even...

Verses 7–13: David triumphs over fear Like the first half of the psalm, this part balances his awareness of the wickedness and ferocity of his enemies with his own personal feelings. Thus verse 7 shows him conscious of the size of the opposition—it was not just a few individuals but whole nations: it was Israel and Philistia as a whole who seemed out to destroy him. Such a situation demanded God’s intervention in anger, to ‘bring (them) down’ and on no account let them escape. Then in verse 8 he
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