Such was not the case, “and even if they were, they would hardly have relished the triumphalist tone of this song. On the contrary, to the defeated Canaanites the sound of the victors expressing their delight in God for having triumphed over them (and by implication over their gods) will have been like salt in the wounds they were still licking.”1
3 “Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; to the LORD I will sing; I will make melody to the LORD, the God of Israel.