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Psalm 58 (ESV)

 

¹  Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?
Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
² No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;
your hands deal out violence on earth.

³ The wicked are estranged from the womb;
they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
⁴ They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
⁵ so that it does not hear the voice of charmers
or of the cunning enchanter.

⁶ O God, break the teeth in their mouths;
tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
⁷ Let them vanish like water that runs away;
when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.
⁸ Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime,
like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
⁹ Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns,
whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!

¹⁰ The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
¹¹ Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
surely there is a God who judges on earth.”

 

REFLECTION:

1. Silence – Read/Listen – Meditate – Pray – Contemplate
2. What is the word or phrase that touches you today as you read and meditate on this passage? What is your emotion as you read this word or phrase? How is that related to your current situation? What does God tell you to do?
3. What social injustice or tyranny gets you stirred up? How is that reflected in your prayers? How can you use cries in verses 6-9 as your own prayer? For whom?

 

PRAYER:

Stay with God for a little longer.  Continue to converse with God and listen to what He wants to tell you.  Then write down any thought and/or prayer in your spiritual journal.

 

HYMN:

There is a God Who Judges the Earth – www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV2E3ghsu24