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Posted by Psalms on Saturday, 23 January 2016
Psalms 140:9
As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
140:9. To the Lord who had covered his head amid the din of arms the psalmist appeals against his foes, that their heads may be covered in quite another sense—covered with the reward of their own malice. The poet represents his adversaries as so united as to have but one head. The law of retaliation often brings down upon the violent the evil which they planned for others. When a person’s lips vent curses they will probably, like chickens, come home to roost.
David’s words may be read in the future as a prophecy, but in this verse at any rate there is no need to do so in order to soften their tone. It is so just that the mischief which people plot and the slander which they speak should recoil upon themselves that every righteous person must desire it: he who does not desire it may wish to be considered humane and Christlike, but the chances are that he has a sneaking agreement with the wicked, or is deficient in a manly sense of right and wrong. We suspect that some of our excessively soft-spoken critics only need to be put into David’s place, and they would become a vast deal more bitter than he ever was.
Excerpt from:
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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