Psalm 58: What To Do When You Want Revenge

Revenge feels honest when the world feels crooked. Today we sit with Psalm 58, where David is fed up with corrupt leaders, unfair judgment, and violence that keeps spreading, and he refuses to dress his anger up in polite church language. We read the psalm, talk about why the imagery is so intense, and face the uncomfortable fact that the Bible sometimes gives us words for the moments we wish someone would finally pay for what they did. But we don’t stop at the rage. We talk about the ...