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The heading is formed precisely according to the introductory formula of the song of Moses in Deu 31:30, and was no doubt taken from the larger historical work employed by the author of our books. It was probably also adopted from this into the canonical collection of the Psalter, and simply brought into conformity with the headings of the other psalms by the alteration of דָּוִד וַיְדַבֵּר (and David said) into דִּבֶּר עֲשֶׁר לְדָוִד יְהֹוָה לְעֶבֶד (“Of David, the servant of the Lord, who spake:” Eng. ver.), and the insertion of לַֽמְנַצֵּחַ (“to the chief musician:” Eng. ver.) at the head (see Delitzsch on the Psalms). “In the day,” i.e., at the time, “when Jehovah had delivered him.” Deliverance “out of the hand of Saul” is specially mentioned, not because this was the last, but because it was the greatest and most glorious, - a deliverance out of the deepest misery into regal might and glory. The psalm is opened by וַיֹּאמַר in both texts.