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We are back in the saddle, and that means we resume our year-long (or longer) look through the Psalms. As a reminder, we are specially scouting the divine (to use the words of Margaret Feinberg’s excellent book). Here we scout the divine using John Goldingay’s Psalms 1. We are in Psalm 18, and we begin…

In Psalm 18, which you can read in its entirety after the jump, David testifies to the goodness of God for delivering him from the threshold of death and chaos (18:1-6). But vv. 7-15 contain a mosaic of metaphors for what God did. The psalmist explores in poetry the deliverance of God. John Goldingay calls…

Psalm 18 is a long psalm about praising God for his deliverance. David declares that he called out to God (v. 3); he describes his situation out of which he needed deliverance (vv. 4-5); and he declares that God answered his petition (v 6). It is give to give witness to one’s experience at the…

Psalm 17 describes in metaphorical flourishes the psalmist’s enemies.  But before David, or whoever the psalmist was, describes them, he calls on God to act. Then he describes the nastiness of his enemies; then he pleads with God to be nasty toward the enemies. Plea, enemies, plea — that’s his order. I’m inclined to want…
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