The megalomaniacal king returns with this psalm called “A Prayer of David.” Despite what the Rev. Spurgeon calls humility, this is a list of demands: “Preserve my life,” says the king; “Save Your servant”; “Be merciful to me” — 15 demands in all, in a psalm that is only 17 verses long.
Yeah, sure, there’s also plenty of apple-polishing going on here, like, “Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord” — again, another admission that gods other than YHWH existed in King David’s cosmology. So I imagine a fundamentalist reads that part of the Bible literally, too, huh?
And in his most tiresome way, David whines that “the proud have risen against me, / And a mob of violent men have sought my life … / Show me a sign for good, / That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed, / Because You, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.” Brown-noser.
Like few others so far, this psalm plainly shows why state religion — Christian nationalism being the lunacy du jour — is ungodly. Who decides which god is worshiped or not? Who spots every sign and declares it good or bad? Who judges right and wrong? Why, the lunatic king, of course.