What About Psalms That Pray for Retribution? | Psalm 109

You’re reading or praying through the Psalms and you come across one where David prays for terrible things to happen to his enemies. For God to bring disaster upon enemies. And you can’t help but think how unChristian this is! “I can’t pray for this!” you think to yourself, “Aren’t we supposed to https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205%3A44&version=NIV (pray FOR our enemies) and https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2012%3A14&version=NIV (BLESS those who curse us)?” That’s the subject of this episode. Psalm 109 ESV A PSALM OF DAVID. 1 Be not silent, O God of my praise!  2 For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.  3 They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.  4 In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer.  5 So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.  6 Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser stand at his right hand. 7 When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin! 8 May his days be few; may another take his office! 9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!  10 May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!  11 May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!  12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children!  13 May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!  14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!  15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!  16 For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death.  17 He loved to curse; let curses come upon him! He did not delight in blessing; may it be