- Insight from Butler’s Daily Bible Reading: Psalm 18—Deliverance. A lengthy Psalm whose theme is deliverance from the enemy. •Praise for deliverance (vv. 1–3): strength, shield, and salvation all describe the Deliverer. •Peril necessitating deliverance (4, 5): death. •Power in deliverance (vv. 6–19): the earth shook and the hills were moved. •Persons for deliverance (vv. 20–28): righteous persons. •Performance of the one delivered (vv. 29–45): power to overtake the enemy. •Praise for deliverance (vv. 46–50): this Psalm begins and ends with praise.