Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 18:33

"He maketh my feet like hinds` [feet]: And setteth me upon my high places." — Psalms 18:33 (ASV)

This verse is borrowed in Habakkuk 3:19. For swiftness as an essential quality of a warrior in Eastern esteem, compare 2 Samuel 1:23, and the invariable epithet in Homer’s Iliad, “swift-footed Achilles.” For “hind,” compare Genesis 49:21. Observe “his feet” in Samuel.

My high places. —With allusion to the mountain fortresses the poet had scaled and won.