Rabbinical tradition holds that David wrote this Psalm during the time where he feigned madness in order to be pitied by the Philistine King of the city of Gath (1 Samuel 21:13). This time of David’s life must have been an all time low for him.
Saturday Morning Psalm: Psalm 33
Saturday Morning Psalm: Psalm 23
Saturday Morning Psalm: Psalm 27
Saturday Morning Psalm: Psalm 16
Psalm 77:11-14
The King of Glory
Psalm 8
As a family we have been working our way through the Psalms each night around the dinner table. I’ll admit that one of the biggest challenges I’ve faced during this time of social isolation has been keeping a 4 and 6 year old engaged with David’s lamentations and cries for help.
One night however, after I had finished reading through Psalm 8, my 6 year old daughter exclaimed “Ah, that was good!”.
Psalm 13
The Psalms are a repertoire of human emotion and that often makes us feel uncomfortable with them, but the very fact that they are included in the canon of Scripture should bring us some measure of peace. For example, the lamenting Psalms like Psalm 13, teach us that God is not angry with us when we grieve our current circumstances.