Psalm 64

Psalm 64

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

1 Hear me, O God, as I voice my complaint;
protect my life from the threat of the enemy.
2 Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked,
from that noisy crowd of evildoers.

3 They sharpen their tongues like swords
and aim their words like deadly arrows.

4 They shoot from ambush at the innocent man;
they shoot at him suddenly, without fear.

5 They encourage each other in evil plans,
they talk about hiding their snares;
they say, "Who will see them [a] ?"

6 They plot injustice and say,
"We have devised a perfect plan!"
Surely the mind and heart of man are cunning.

7 But God will shoot them with arrows;
suddenly they will be struck down.

8 He will turn their own tongues against them
and bring them to ruin;
all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.

9 All mankind will fear;
they will proclaim the works of God
and ponder what he has done.

10 Let the righteous rejoice in the LORD
and take refuge in him;
let all the upright in heart praise him!

my turn again :) Reading this passage makes me wonder about evil people. The bible talks about evil people all the time but I don't think i've meant anyone evil in my lifetime. I know we're all evil becuase of sin but someone lacking the conscience that God gave all of us, someone who has evil plan and evil snares spoken about in psalms. We've grown up in a relative society when all evil-ness can be traced by to some psychological incident/environment/problem. And we are supposed to delight in the fall of the wicked but can we rejoice in hell? eternal torment? I get so upset over the pains of this world and yet can any of it compare to hell? Can famine and murder, war, and rape compare to hell? And I have determined that this God who condemns men to hell is a good God. Therefore I must see all the pain of this world and still determine that he is good. It is so hard. My eternal pains have returned-pains for world suffering but then so much more for the damned. How do we survive with such a pain, such a knowledge? Will we all go mad? Still thousands of Christians before us have lived with this pain and so will we. And in the midst of it all we must still "rejoice in the LORD and take refuge in him," for the psalmist says, "let all the upright in heart praise him!"