Psalm 109:19-20

Psalm 109:19-20

Curses that backfire

David has one more swipe at his archenemy and then he embraces all those who have lied about him, accused him and spoken evil about him. The main antagonist, the one who has delighted in pronouncing curses over everyone, this man’s final judgement is that he will wear those curses himself. David asks the Lord to make them stick to him who uttered them in the first place. “May they be like a cloak, wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.” 

I have tried to recall some of the people I have known, over many years, who carried curses with them and who delighted in speaking evil of others. I have to say that their journey has not brought them to a resting place of joy and contentment, fulfilment, and recognition of having lived a successful and worthwhile life. Indeed, too many have died miserable and alone and still warped by their negativism and callous views of others. You see, their curses have rebounded, they were eager to give them out, not realising that when you do, something remains, those same obscenities have a way of tormenting the perpetrators!

David is confident enough in the Lord that he prays that all such injustices should rebound on those who commit them, that this might be the Lord’s way of bringing about His justice. I guess this is one way of redressing the effects of the wrongs committed against us, if someone has abused us with their words then we simply ask that those words rebound and stick to our accuser! Then we can leave the matter in God’s hands, if our cause is just there will be no need for retribution! Wow! What a God He is, that even such matters can be brought to Him! 

 

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