The Belt of Truth: Psalm 140

David is confronted with his enemies in psalm 140 and describes them. They love violence and evil and want war. They are not just misunderstood. They delight in evil. 

Against them, David does not respond as they do. He goes to God in prayer for God to sort it out. Evil is self destructive and so David knows that their cause will fail in the end. And so he asks God for deliverance. 

In the end, David focuses solely on the fact that God will come through and he will go from being surrounded by his enemies to being in the Lord’s presence. 

In this psalm we can see the life of Jesus against those who were violent to him and this prayer on his lips is one given to us in our trial as well.