I just read the first line of this psalm and winced: “O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs—” Oh, god, another one of those psalms, I thought.
But I read the whole thing, anyway, and I saw that it describes as proud, wicked, and insolent, people like MAGA fanatics and their lying leader.
The psalmist asks why YHWH hasn’t smacked all those bad people down yet. “[Y]ou fools,” he says to the wicked ones, “when will you be wise?”
And then the psalmist adds, “The Lord knows the thoughts of man, / That they are futile.” But is this wise guy referring just to them or to us both?