Ps. 109: The Cursed Man

Psalm 109:21 "But you, O Sovereign LORD, deal well with me for your name's sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me."

Here is David putting the wood to an enemy. He bemoans how this person is wicked, and was prone to cursing, so here is the 109th Psalm, bringing a curse down on him.

In other Psalms, David usually left specific acts of revenge or judgment in the hands of God. Here, David offers all kinds of tit-for-tat ideas for God...in case God runs out of ideas to punish.

It gets pretty severe: "May his children become fatherless, may his wife become a widow." Nothing to read between the lines of here, David wants this person dead for the wickedness and evil this person has done.

And I don't know if it's necessarily a specific person. Saul was probably David's main antagonist as I recall, but he wasn't the only one.

Another interesting thing about the 109th Psalm. Its for the music director. This was meant to be sung in church, so to speak. Can you imagine?