A Fresh Look at the Imprecatory Psalms

Abstract

Included in the Psalter are various containing appeals for God to pour out His wrath on the psalmist's enemies. These are commonly classified imprecatory psalms for the imprecation forms a chief element in the psalm. These have been problematic for Bible teachers and preachers because of the difficulty in reconciling them with Christian thought. Barnes comments on this problem. . . . perhaps there is no part of the Bible that gives more perplexity and pain to its readers than this; perhaps nothing that constitutes a more plausible objection to the belief that the are the productions of inspired men than the spirit of revenge which they sometimes seem to breathe and the spirit of cherished malice and implacableness which the writers seem to manifest.

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