Psalm 129

Enemies remembered.......and cursed.

This song calls for all Israel, as an individual, to remember past suffering
and oppression......and with that, God's protection and deliverance.

Through all her afflictions.....famine, Egypt, the wilderness, the years of the judges
and the kings, the exile.....God was there, and delivered.

And the prayer against the enemy?  Those who hate Zion?  (remember this is a song of ascents......sung as they traveled to Zion for corporate worship.  Can you hear them
singing against their enemies as they near the city? I suspect a note of joy as they recall
their past).

May they be shamed and put down.
May they have no prosperity or longevity.
May they have no posterity.
May they have no blessing or praise.

The enemy here is the opposite of the "one who fears Jehovah" in Psalm 128.  THAT man will
be blessed.  But the enemy of God will wither and perish.

I am reminded of earlier Psalms that spoke such curses on the enemy....not for vengeance
sake, but for God's Name to be glorified.

I recall Psalm 1 about the wicked being blown away like chaff in the wind.