As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
Psalm 109 is an imprecatory psalm of cursing, a prayer containing fierce denunciations and appeals for another's destruction. It was viewed as difficult to reconcile with the Sermon on the Mount. Its curses are not an expression of personal revenge or an incitement to cruelty, but the voice of divine justice against those whose lives are evil.
Within Psalms 105 to 110, the psalm predicts God's retributive wrath and justice upon evildoers and sinners, specifically tribulation coming upon the enemies of God's people. The verse asks that cursing come upon the one who loved and delighted in it, and that blessing remain far from the one who did not delight in it and rejected it. Those who plot wickedness against the innocent receive back the curses they sought to bring on others, as the fruit of their own sowing.
Psalm 109 is an imprecatory psalm of cursing, a prayer containing fierce denunciations and appeals for another's destruction. It was viewed as difficult to reconcile with the Sermon on the Mount. Its curses are not an expression of personal revenge or an incitement to cruelty, but the voice of divine justice against those whose lives are evil.
Within Psalms 105 to 110, the psalm predicts God's retributive wrath and justice upon evildoers and sinners, specifically tribulation coming upon the enemies of God's people. The verse asks that cursing come upon the one who loved and delighted in it, and that blessing remain far from the one who did not delight in it and rejected it. Those who plot wickedness against the innocent receive back the curses they sought to bring on others, as the fruit of their own sowing.