Thursday, November 16, 2017

Comment on a Psalm


Here is a Psalm where David not in trouble. Instead, he is reacting to unjust judges, whom he labeled 'gods'. Some Christians don't know what to do with some of what David calls for, things like, 'O God, break the teeth in their mouths' (verse 6) and 'let them be like the stillborn child who never sees the sun' (verse 8). But what is this but a cry for justice. And since 'vengeance is mine, says the Lord' it seems a very apt request. The martyrs of Revelation 6 thought so. They - and we - 'will rejoice when [we] see the vengeance' (verse 10).

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