The Cry of a Hunted Soul (UPDATE)

[Psalm 140] is The Cry Of A Hunted Soul the supplication of a believer incessantly persecuted and beset by cunning enemies, who hungered for his destruction.--Spurgeon

On the first reading of this Psalm one is inclined to think that there is somewhat of fierceness and bitterness in it, which is hardly consistent with the character of a child of God, and therefore unbecoming in David...And yet I really think that a little more examination of the language of this Psalm will lead us to believe that we are doing David wrong in affixing anything like a meaning or desire of vindictiveness to his words. Assuredly we can find no fault with one who takes his wrongs in prayer to God; who, like Hezekiah, takes the roll of his cares, and sorrows, and trials, and spreads it before the Lord. And this is what David does in the very first verse: "Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man; preserve me from the violent man." I do not think a person who does this, who, when smarting under a sense of injury and wrong, goes at once to God and lays open his heart to him, is likely to go very far wrong; for even though he may have begun in somewhat of an unkindly spirit, yet prayer opens before us such a sight and sense of our own guiltiness and wrongs towards God, and thereby exercises such an abasing, as well as healing and soothing, influence over our feelings towards others, that we might almost be assured that he whose prayer might begin even with a vehement enumeration of his own wrongs, would end with something very like a determination to bless them that cursed, and to do good to them that hated him. You will observe, too, how, from first to last, David leaves his cause in God's hands; it is not "my sword and my bow that shall help me"; he counted them vain things to help a man; and therefore, as he had so often said in other Psalms; "The Lord was his shield and his defense", and as God had already shielded his head in the day of battle, so he prays for the same protection against his enemies now. --Barton Bouchier.

Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men; protect me from men of violence,

who devise evil plans in their hearts
and stir up war every day.

They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's;
the poison of vipers is on their lips.
Selah

Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked;
protect me from men of violence
who plan to trip my feet.

Proud men have hidden a snare for me;
they have spread out the cords of their net
and have set traps for me along my path.
Selah

O LORD, I say to you, "You are my God."
Hear, O LORD, my cry for mercy.

O Sovereign LORD, my strong deliverer,
who shields my head in the day of battle-

do not grant the wicked their desires, O LORD;
do not let their plans succeed,
or they will become proud.
Selah

Let the heads of those who surround me
be covered with the trouble their lips have caused....--Psalm 140

UPDATE: More lies from those who devise evil plans against me:
Hafichuk has left the following comment on a portion of his site of deception and claims it to be from a woman that left a comment on Mike's site:

"Just by the by, I emailed Mike and asked him if he really knew what Lisa did? And I subsequently told him my thoughts. He came back to me saying that he agreed and at the time only took Lisa's word for what had happened - not having read everything in it's entirity - he too jumped to conclusions. He is very upset with Lisa. He was deceived by Lisa just as everyone else STILL is. He ended up being a 'pawn' in Lisa's nasty game and the consequences of his words and actions will surely haunt him. I have left the FINAL decision as to what he needs to do to rectify this problem in his hands - he can continue to ignore it or fix it. Only time will tell if he truly stands for truth or not. Mike can end this just as easily as it started by rebuking Lisa for her wicked ways, but will he do that? I can only pray he does."

I went directly to Mike to ask if this is all true or has Hafichuk twisted his words to fit his agenda as he has done so blatantly with mine?
Mike's response:

Lisa,

This is just more of his lies. Ignore him and stay away from his site my sister....I did not say anything remotely like this. I simply told this "Deborah" that I thought it would have been better if none of us had ever started conversing with these people. No, Lisa I am not rebuking you now nor will I ever. Let us be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. These people are just digging their hole a bit deeper with their deceptive ways.

In Christ

Mike Ratliff

He is right. This is in God's hands.