Imprecatory Psalm

We will still be in Psalm 35 this week for our Wednesday night study at prayer meeting.  I have been continuing to read it every day.  Thinking much about "imprecatory."  The Psalmist is calling for judgement on his enemies ... and yet, it mentions how he prayed and grieved for them first.

Psalm 35:13-14

But as for me, when they were sick,

my clothing was sackcloth:

I humbled my soul with fasting;

and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother:

I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

 

I often want to skip the compassion and the discipline of prayer to move right to the judgment.