This psalmist should have lived to hear Garth Brooks sing about unanswered prayers, even though this song is about something else — not the loss of an old flame, but the loss of the fire within, or life itself.
This psalm specifically mentions people who say one thing, then do the very opposite, as in speaking out for peace and then going to war. The psalmist says his “Lord” will see what’s going on and will “destroy them / And not build them up,” not in some far-off heaven, but here and now on earth.
Maybe I’m looking at this the wrong way, but is that what’s happening in Ukraine? In the Middle East? In Africa? In Central and South America? If it is, then somebody’s got a whole lot of catching up to do.