Reading
SAA Notes
We find the silences of God disturbing. People can be so cruel. We can suffer so much from their hands. David is not quiescent in the face of such attack. He turns to God and pours out all the feelings of his heart. Don’t be shocked. Turn to Him for He is at your right hand in your need!
SJA Notes
* Help us, O LORD our God, save us according to Your steadfast love!
“May his days be few; may another take his office! May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!”
These are word-word statements David is making.
“May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!”
David is not only asking God to limit evil generally, but that God limit evil _people_.
What reason could David have for bringing this kind of prayer?
He says of the wicked man,
“For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death.”
David is praying for the end of people who work evil. Of people who bring death to the poor and need, people who love to curse (and do not like blessing).
David brings these people before the Lord and asks for them to be punished.
Let us be encouraged to dwell on these words, even though they may seem hard and judgemental.
Let us be encouraged to wrestle with our own experiences with people.
Let us give thanks to the Lord,
“For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.”
* Father God,
Thank You Lord, we give You thanks.
Please help us to praise You in the places You have put us.
You stand at the right hand of the needy one – thank You Lord!
Amen.