The Secret Plots of the Wicked – Psalm 64

My granddaughter worked for a coffee shop and a group of employees who didn’t like the younger and recently elevated manager banded together to make accusations against her and got her fired.  My granddaughter knew she was blameless.  These wicked employees ruined her career at this job.  She had a reasonable complaint.

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.  Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers, who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows, shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear.  They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, “Who can see them?”  They search out injustice, saying, “We have accomplished a diligent search.”  For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep.

But God shoots his arrow at them; they are wounded suddenly.  They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them; all who see them will wag their heads.  Then all mankind fears; they tell what God has brought about and ponder what he has done.

Let the righteous one rejoice in the LORD and take refuge in him!  Let all the upright in heart exult!  (Psalm 64 ESV)

There are those whose wickedness moves them against the righteous.  They can’t help but be against us because otherwise they must admit that our way of life is correct and theirs is wrong.  So they persecute us without mercy and seek our destruction as proof of their own rightness.  But God will not allow that to stand.  The righteous will exult when He brings justice to bear in the lives of the wicked.