This song, which is also found as Psalm 18 with very few significant changes, takes its title from the words of the first verse. It dates to the ea…

And David spoke unto the Lord the words of this song in the
day [that] the Lord had delivered him out of…

This chapter is a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards very similar to Psalm 18. Those who trust God in the way of duty will find him a present h…