If I were grading Asaph on creative writing, he’d get an A-plus. I don’t really like what he says, but I love how he says it. He’s Bob Dylan backwards or John Lennon on the Mystery Tour bus.
Asaph states that YHWH “broke the arrows of the bow, / [and] The shield and sword of battle,” and that “[b]oth the chariot and horse [He] cast into a dead sleep” — antiwar claims, you know.
Asaph says to fear neither armies nor rulers as oppressors — that YHWH is greater and more fearsome. But there’s still YAH’s anger and wrath. So instead of divine solace, godly stressors.