Psalm 18: 2-3, 3-4, 47, 51

This week’s responsorial comes from Psalm 18, a royal thanksgiving for a military victory. Written by King David, the psalm in its entirety gives thanks to God for the many deliverances he had wrought for David; it is thought that the king composed this hymn of praise as a way to preserve these feats in his own memory and to pass down knowledge of those feats to the people.

This psalm of praise is duplicated in 2 Samuel 22.