The Skeptics Annotated Bible (451 page)

(58.8b)
“Let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman.”
A prayer that your enemies will die like an aborted fetus.

9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

10
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

(58.10)
“The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.”
The righteous will rejoice when he sees the wicked being dismembered by God. He’ll even get a chance to wash his feet in their blood. Now that’s entertainment!
35 Has there ever been a righteous person?
303 Should we rejoice to see our enemies suffer?

11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

1
Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.

5 Thou therefore,
O LORD
God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to
visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors.
Selah.

(59.5)
“O Lord … visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors.”
The psalmist asks God to kill all “the heathen” and show them no mercy.

6 They return at evening:
they make a noise like a dog
, and go round about the city.

7 Behold,
they belch out with their mouth:
swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

(59.6-7)
“They make a noise like a dog …. They belch out with their mouth.”
(These are good reasons for God to kill them.)