I’m always impressed with the honesty David expressed when he was frustrated. None more so than asserting his displeasure with former colleagues attacking him without cause, repaying friendship with evil behaviors.

David starts strong:

Let an accuser stand at his right hand…

May his days be few…

May another take his place of leadership…

Then David really winds up and delivers:

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow…

May his children be wandering beggars…

May strangers plunder the fruits of his labor…

Then the coup de grâce:

May he blot out their name from the earth…

Finally David turns to the Lord, and we better glimpse the deep feeling of betrayal he experienced:

I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

I have no idea if any of these curses materialized. I just appreciate David’s honesty before the Lord. If we can’t complain to the Lord, who else do we have?

It seems David kept up a running dialogue with his God—honest, open, uninhibited. Probably ok for me to do so as well.

Psalm 109 in reading the Bible cover to cover in 2022

Photo by Katerina Pavlyuchkova