The safety of such as trust in God. A prayer for the godly, and against the wicked.
A Song of Degrees.
Title. המעלות שׁיר Shiir hammangaloth.] The title of this psalm does not tell us its author. Bishop Patrick supposes it to have been a pious exhortation to the people, to trust in God, when Sennacherib's army threatened them with destruction; and perhaps, says he, these were some of the comfortable words which, as we read, Hezekiah spoke to them, 2 Chronicles 32:6-8 when God chastised them by that rod of his anger, as he calls Sennacherib, Isaiah 10:5 which the Psalmist here foretold should not long afflict them. But Dr. Delaney supposes it to have been made by David just before the attack of the strongholds of Sion; and in this light he would consider the Psalmist as answering the objections which we may imagine to have been made in a council of war held upon this occasion, from the great strength of the place; and religiously reminding them, that under the good providence of God they might be confident of surmounting all difficulties. Life of David, book 2: chap. 6.