PSALM—NOTE ON Psalms 78:65 God graciously answered Israel’s recurring pattern of sin by raising up David to be their king. the Lord awoke as from sleep. This is a bold image, conveying what the believer can feel when God stirs himself from apparent inactivity to take action on behalf of his suffering people (see Psalms 35:23; Psalms 44:23). The action that God took was to install a king. David was taken from the sheepfolds. The king is ideally a shepherd of his people (see 2 Samuel 5:2), caring for them, protecting them, and leading them in faithfulness to the covenant. David at his best did his work with upright heart and skillful hand, though he had his own moral failures.

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