This corporate hymn has three sections, each focusing on a different locale and each placing Yahweh in a distinct role. He is the atoner at the temple (vv. 1–4), the warrior who establishes order in all creation (vv. 5–8), and the dispenser of water and fertility in the land (vv. 9–13). Several key phrases confirm this structuring of the psalm’s contents. The respective locations form an inclusion for each strophe: Zion and temple (vv. 1, 4), “all the ends of the earth” and “where morning dawns and evening fades” (vv. 5, 8), and the land and grasslands and hills, and meadows and valleys (vv. 9, 12–13). Beginning strophes one and two are divine epithets that link them: “You who hear prayer” (v. 2) “answer us” as “O God our Savior” (v. 5). The second strophe is marked off by the mention of a…