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So, Paul, we're in Psalms 16 through 20 today.

Just to start off this episode, where are we going in the Psalms today? What do we want to dig into? Yeah, so the Psalms today basically focus on God's provision

and protection of his people. And Psalm 17 has kind of an image that's, you might have heard

before that's kind of famous,

that David requesting that God put him in the shadow of his wings in verse 8.

So that kind of portrays that protection in a cool way.

But I'd actually like to highlight Psalms 18 and 19 for us today.

And Psalm 18 gives kind of a very long credit line at the beginning, saying that it's the song David sang when God delivered him from Saul.

And this Psalm is actually identical to something we've already read before back in 2nd Samuel 22.

But now David is writing this as a Psalm of royalty for Israel to sing, giving thanks to God for the Davidic line and the king that leads

them to righteousness. And so because this is a psalm about the king of God's nation, you might expect

kind of declarations of his power or his grandeur or how great he is. But that's not actually

what we get. Instead, we get a description of how great God is.

It was God who pulled David out of deep water, so to speak, as it says in verse 16. It was God

who rescued David from his enemies and put him in a spacious space. It was God who strengthened

David to defeat his enemies. And mixed in here, because of that,

we get these really cool pictures of God's character that are kind of unique. In verse 27, David

says that God rescues an oppressed people, but that he humbles those with haughty eyes. And so it's this

kind of reversal that we see that the low are the ones

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