O God, Speak Up!
If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 109. Psalm 109 is a hard psalm. It is the last of the imprecatory psalms. That is, it is a psalm of imprecation of curse. It calls down God's curse on the wicked. And it is well that it is the last of the imprecatory psalms because it is perhaps the strongest and certainly the most sustained of the songs of curse. There are something like twenty-four curses called down in verses 6 to 20 in the middle section of the psalm in the portion of imprecation. The curses in this psalm are so strong that even writers like C.S. Lewis, when looking at this passage, said that “it strikes us in the face like heat from the mouth of a furnace.” And if you've looked over these words before now, you’ll know exactly what Lewis…