Does The Start of This Psalm Sound Like The Modern World?
THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED & THE MOUTH OF THE DECEITFUL
Sounds like modern times, doesn’t it? Office Politics? Companies that cheat their customers, that refuse to pay up? Governments that protect paedophiles? That fake intelligence to manipulate their people and their military into wars?
Jesus, Forgiveness, Christianity and The Talmud
Jesus DID forgive a lot of people. But He DID NOT forgive everyone. He was savage in what He said about those who misled and harmed others, almost “for sport”, i.e. those who had no intention of changing their ways.
Jesus was was scathing, almost vitriolic, about corrupt leaders, political and religious, who abused, harmed and exploited others.
What The Talmud Says About Protecting The Defenceless
The Talmud is very clear and blunt. If you take forgiveness to the level of being “kind to the cruel”, then you are encoraging the cruel and corrupt to exploit and be cruel to the defenceless. In “so doing”, you make yourself just as guilty as the corrupt and the cruel when you help them “get away with” their evil.
King David’s Psalm, Psalm 109, is a “doozie”. It is a great one re corrupt businesses that exploit customers and staff, about corrupt bureaucrats, about corrupt politicians, corrupt judges and lawyers, and corrupt public servants. Not all “Civil Servants” are civil. Some “public servants” do not “Serve the public”. Some DO! Mny DO — and “Thank God” for those “Good people”.
But modern society has too often run bt agendas that see profit as more important than people, agendas that treat war as just a profitable business — as long as it is someone else’s children who suffer and die.
English Translation Psalm 109
This is it:
_salm 109 (Hebrew Version — Continuous Text)
The Hebrew version has a bit more “grunt” to the words than the English translation. Note that the verse numbers “differ” by 1, because the Hebrew version counts the “intro” as a verse:
A “Verse by Verse” version of The Hebrew Text of Psalm 109, is on the Bible-Tech website.
