Psalm 109:1-20
David's prayer to his enemy, the wicked and deceitful men.
There sins:
They attack me without cause
In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.
He never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needed and the brokenhearted.
Prayer:
May their sins always remain before the lord, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
May his descendants be cut off, his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
May his days be few and his prayers condemn him.
May the Lord's payment to y accusers to those who speak evil of me.
Why?
People the psalmist has loved and treated well have returned evil for good. They have no excuse for the attack which has reduced him to a shadow.
His bitterness finds expression in a terrible curse, excused in the psalmist's mind as fitting punishment:' he loved to curse - may he be cursed! He hated to give blessing - may no one bless him'
Psalmist prayed to the Lord to revenge for him. Call for help. He is a man of prayer.
The worst punishment is the sins are never be blotted out from the Lord.
How?
Am I a man of prayer? Yes, I am a man of prayer and a man of follower of Christ. I need more prayer to the Lord.
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