3. (a) The superscription of Psalm 18 may remind us of what? (b) What factors are emphasized at Psalm 18:1-6?

³ Jehovah God is the unequaled Provider of escape. Please turn to Psalm 18 and note that the Ps 18 superscription says it was composed by David “in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the palm of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul.” Just the mention of Israel’s first human king, Saul, may well remind us of how often David must have felt that death was staring him in the face. Why, three times the king tried to pin David to the wall with a spear! (1 Sam. 18:11; 19:10) Thereafter, for several years David was kept on the run, relentlessly hunted down by Saul. (1 Sam. 26:20)

4. What grand title is ascribed to Jehovah, and how does Psalm 18 bear out the appropriateness of it?

⁴ What a grand and comforting title was thereby ascribed to Jehovah​—“the Provider of escape.” And did Jehovah God prove true to it? Indeed he did, for after describing mighty deeds of Jehovah, David went on to say: “He was delivering me from my strong enemy, and from those hating me; because they were stronger than I was. They kept confronting me in the day of my disaster, but Jehovah came to be as a support for me. And he proceeded to bring me out into a roomy place; he was rescuing me, because he had found delight in me.”​—Ps. 18:17-19.

5, 6. (a) How does Psalm 37 help Jehovah’s people to place confidence in him as “the Provider of escape”? (b) How is a sense of urgency highlighted in Psalm 70?

⁵ Many times throughout the Psalms David took up this same theme.