Like a number of other psalms, this one — another “Psalm of Ascent” — has so much more literary value than others. As I suspected yesterday, I see my man Asaph’s marks all over it.
Still, this is another psalm focusing on Israel’s enemies, but the writer says YAH “has not given us as prey to their teeth [and] / Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers.”
Even if this psalmist were the wise Asaph, he takes too much for granted. But how could the old poet ever know the Nazis would murder six million innocent Jews? And where was YHWH then?