Psalms 54 - Introduction

LIV.

If this Psalm is the outcome of individual feeling, the traditional title will suit it as well as any that conjecture can supply. But it reads more like the cry of a people in distress, an oppressed race, powerless except in its religious hope. A stanza of five lines, with marked and elegant rhythm is followed by eight loosely connected lines.

Title. — See Notes to titles of Psalms 4, 32; and comp. 1 Samuel 23:19; 1 Samuel 26:1.