Psalm 109

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The first time I read Psalm 109 was November 13, 2021.  Having read and understood enough of what David was or is saying, made me want to share with today's social media, that we have an opportunity to change and tell others to join the winning side.

David asked God to remove the enemy and all who are connected to the enemy off the face of the earth, and if they lived, let them have a hard life.  

David was king.  His words were a decree that he asked God to support him in.  David wanted God to judge people who would not stop hurting helpless people who were unable to defend themselves.

 A lot of people pick and choose the Psalm they like. Many leaders quote Psalm 91 or they are familiar with Psalm 91; I don't know of anyone who sings the song of Psalm 109.  

God has ordained both of these songs to be sung by His people.

I know people who say this Psalm is no longer useful since Jesus came and we are not under the law.   I am learning so many things about God until I am deaf when I hear how screwed up some people are about God's Word and at the same time they refuse to recheck to see if we may have missed an understanding.  

 Psalm 109 is clear.  It gives us a clear invitation to remove ourselves from being on the wrong team.  We can pray as David for our enemies to be removed or we can be the enemy who will be removed.  

Somewhere we have defined love as a bed of roses with no thorns.  All the roses I know have thorns and those thorns are put in place sometimes to war off enemies of the garden.  Because death exists, we think of it as the absence of love.  God uses death as a last result in most cases to get people to stop sinning.  Once the judgment of wrong is no longer visible, we as people go back into sin as if there is never a judgment for the wrong committed.

Psalm 109 is a reminder that God has given David a heart to remove all wrongdoers who refuse to change, an ultimatum; change or die.

In our judicial system,  we still have this in place.  When a man or woman refuses to submit to authority after hurting others and refuses to stop, death could and is an option for the law enforcers to use.  Although we live where some law enforcers have abused their power, God has not abused His authority, and the consequences put in place by God are not outdated.

Psalm 109 is a song and God commanded it to be sung by all believers.  

God is love and God will even destroy if it means stop hurting your brother.

Love suffers long and is kind.  This does not mean love is blind and looks the other way when we destroy people for nothing.  It is time we grow up and understand, the wages of sin is death.  

 

109   Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

² For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Lord,  lies hurt.

³ They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

I spoke out for you and hatred was my return.  These people did this without a cause.

⁴ For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

Because of you, I have haters.  Instead of returning what they give to me, I turn to prayer.

⁵ And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Joseph stated these same words.  I was being prepared by God to do you good, even though you did evil toward me.

⁶ Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

Provide evil men to lead them.  Let satan be the advisor of this leader.

⁷ When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

Let those who speak against you be found guilty.  Don't let what he prays come before your ears.

⁸ Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

Let him die early.  Let somebody else take his place.

⁹ Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Take his life.

¹⁰ Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

Let him own nothing and let food be hard to find.

¹¹ Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

Let evil men take their possessions and let people he does not know  take them from him.

¹² Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

Make his children suffer because of his sins.  If he asks for mercy don't give him extra.

¹³ Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Cut off his offspring and don't let anyone remember their names.

¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Let the Lord remember the sins of his father and mother.

¹⁵ Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

¹⁶ Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

¹⁷ As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

¹⁸ As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

¹⁹ Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

²⁰ Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

²¹ But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

²² For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

²³ I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

²⁵ I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

²⁶ Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

²⁷ That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it.

²⁸ Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

²⁹ Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

³⁰ I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

³¹ For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.