Psalms 17:1-2
Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry!
Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!
From your presence let my vindication come!
Let your eyes behold the right!
Tag: Prayer for vindication
When we are being attacked by others, prayer for help from God is the best and only, real, approach. Psalm 17 is such an approach. David is feeling threatened, unjustly. This could be at any time in David's life. He lived under the threat of constant judgement. David's prayer was for God to vindicate him. He doesn't just want God to reward him, he wants God to act in His justice to vindicate him. But, not according to David's own justice system, but according to God's justice system. Only God can really judge, justly. Man has a failed sense of justice. We all want justice, but our justice is evil, because we are evil. We are sinners and therefore we have an inability to judge righteously. David pleads to God to "hear" him. He wants God to have His "eyes behold the right!! In this Psalm David will go on to share with God that he is innocent. Not that he is innocent of evil, but rather he is innocent of what this person(s) is saying about him. He doesn't defend himself, however. He allows God to defend him.
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