How do we explain the imprecatory psalms?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1117 Among the psalms of praise, thanksgiving, and quiet trust, we encounter prayers that shock us with their intensity. These are the imprecatory psalms, prayers calling down curses on enemies, invoking divine vengeance in the most graphic terms. “Break the teeth in their mouths, O God!” (Psalm 58:6). “Let their children be fatherless and…