C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch on Psalms 33:1

Praise of the Ruler of the World as Being the Defender of His People

The Davidic Maskîl, Psa 32:1-11, is followed by an anonymous congregational song of a hymnic character, which begins just like the former closes. It owes its composition apparently to some deliverance of the nation from heathen oppression, which had resulted from God’s interposition and without war. Moreover it exhibits no trace of dependence upon earlier models, such as might compel us to assign a late date to it; the time of Jeremiah, for instance, which Hitzig adopts. The structure is symmetrical. Between the two hexastichs, Psa 33:1, Psa 33:20, the materia laudis is set forth in eight tetrastichs.