Sunday Sermonette: Cut and Paste

Psalm 18 is the longest of the psalms, so it ' s the only one you ' ll get today. However, I thought of skipping it because it ' s actually copied from 2 Samuel 22.  Since they didn ' t have a Xerox machine there is a word or two different here and there, but it ' s just as possible that this was the original and the song in Samuel is the copy. Anyway, you ' ve certainly forgotten it but you ' ve already read it if you ' ve been with us long enough. It ' s the usual jingoistic, exterminationist violence from the Deuteronomistic history. It ' s not just boasting of winning the civil war over Saul -- it also boasts of conquest, see verses 37 through 45.To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David the servant of theLord, who addressed the words of this song to theLord on the day when theLord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said:18 I love thee, OLord, my strength.2 TheLord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer,    my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,    my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.3 I call upon theLord, who is worthy to be praised,    and I am saved from my enemies.4 The cords of death encompassed me,    the torrents of perdition assailed me;5 the cords of Sheol entangled me,    the snares of death confronted me.6 In my distress I called upon theLord;   ...
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