Psalm 68 - this relatively longer psalm of praise with a particular focus on God as a warrior general. It praises God as a military leader and makes the statement that God has thousands and thousands of chariots.
Psalm 69 - David has sinned and acknowledges it, but asks God to help him out of this pit. In particular, David feels shame from those close to him (family) and that drunk people make songs about him.
Psalm 70 - David prays for God's protection against people plotting his ruin. We don't get much detail from the psalm about what they're doing.
Psalm 86 - I would call this a "compilation psalm". It seems to have a lot of the themes and focus from other psalms, just on a smaller scale. David makes the statement about God delivering him from the "realm of the dead". David makes a statement like that in a lot of his psalms. I wonder if David is referring to literal death (I.e., God saved him from being killed) or if David is trying to make a theological point about the afterlife.
Psalm 101 - David again links slander and deceit with wickedness. It ends with the curious statement that every morning, David will kick evil doers out of the city, presumably Jerusalem.
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