This particular Psalm is short and rather violent. Christians keep telling me that I should read my bible and I would believe. The problem is that I do read my bible and, beyond being an interesting bronze age work, large portions of the book are pretty horrible.
First, we have the image of a snail melting away as it crawls in verse 8. I understand how ancient people might have thought the snail trail was evidence that the snail was melting. If there weren't Christians who believed that everything in the book were literal, it would just be an interesting metaphor.
The part that it interest me is writers view of The Righteous. In verse The Righteous person rejoices in vengeance and washes his feet in the blood of the wicked
There are many violent verses in the bible. I thought it would be interesting to see how many we could come up with in this thread. Post a few and we'll see how long this thread can get.
First, we have the image of a snail melting away as it crawls in verse 8. I understand how ancient people might have thought the snail trail was evidence that the snail was melting. If there weren't Christians who believed that everything in the book were literal, it would just be an interesting metaphor.
The part that it interest me is writers view of The Righteous. In verse The Righteous person rejoices in vengeance and washes his feet in the blood of the wicked
There are many violent verses in the bible. I thought it would be interesting to see how many we could come up with in this thread. Post a few and we'll see how long this thread can get.
Quote:To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.
58:1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
58:5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
58:7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
58:8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
58:11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
