The Psalmist is teaching that all the problems we have that are too heavy for us to handle come from the corruption that is in the world. We have been delivered from the curse of sin but we still are touched by the corruption of the curse. Whenever he addresses God describing his inward corruption under the power of Gods spoken word , he is describing reality as it is even tho he does not understand all of the reasons that he feels the way that he does. Some problems that we experience are not as weighted as other problems. Here the Psalmist the weight of the problem is affecting his general disposition. There are times in our lives where we experience darkness even tho we have expressed our inward turmoil to God. Even tho we may not have an immediate answer to lift us out of the darkness we must press in and describe to God what we are experiencing. This is what the apostle was teaching when he pleaded with God three times to remove the thorn. I believe the grace he received was the freedom that is taught in these psalms to approach God and to describe our helpless experience. The Psalmist is teaching that in these deeper issues were we feel disconnected from our circumstances , even tho we cannot climb out of the darkness , there is value in this transparency before God. In this way there is something that we need that must come from God. Eventually God will provide what we need even tho it seems hopeless right up to the point where He gives it.

 The sword was an instrument of the Angel of the Lord in judgement upon the nations. God actually used the sword to destroy His own wayward people. Not directed at the remnant but to the false religious system that brought violence to the nation. The evidence of Israels waywardness was political. They showed the rebellion of Gods covenant by destroying the most venerable in society. The gospel is the reality of Gods language being established in the culture of passive resistance. Man is guilty of adding to grace by not falling back upon Gods word. Rather man seeks to complicate society with his own false view of reality. He goes outside of Gods boundaries with impunity. (God is dead movement to the introduction of social studies that replaced individualism in the bill of rights). God established His law and covenants as the peaceful language that would cause all the nation to prosper. But they sought to redefine Gods covenant language and cast doubt upon Gods goodness.. They sought to destroy the simplicity of the gospel for the reasons that they were unable to meet the requirements of the most simple standards of grace. The natural outflow of mans heart is to destroy his neighbor by becoming his own god. In order to prevent the total destruction of Israel God had to bring the sword against this terrible violence against the helpless. Gods word cannot fail and He will fulfill His promises to His covenant people in bringing swift destruction on His chosen nation. This is very precise.

 own post.The vine is also a reference to the spread of the gospel through Gods covenant promises to Israel. When the nation prospered it was described as this vine growing from Israel and filling all of the land...over the mountains and into the valleys. This was actually a description of the success of the eternal Son of God. In other words the spread of Israel was the Father showing forth the Son who gives eternal life. The Son who created life and sustains the universe. The spread of the vine is determined upon the Fathers acceptance of the Son. The Father looks upon the Son is a reference to the nt gospel that prospered through the coming of the Holy Spirit. The gift of the Holy Spirit was given because Christ work was completed sufficient and acceptable to the Father. He looks upon Christ and the church is revived. Gods kingdom cannot be thwarted because it is Gods choice to give some men eternal life. But the bible also uses the wine as a drink of the power of the evil kings. So the wrath of God is given as a sweet wine that the evil kings drink down to their own judgement. There is an attraction to the cup of Gods wrath in which the evil kings will drink the whole cup. This is a reference to Gods complete destruction of the powers of this earth and the subsequent new kingdom that will be established without any opposition. So the grapes are both pleasant and destructive ... its dependent which cup man is drinking .. the cursed cup or the blessed cup of eternal life.

 Behar's post.

The gospel is a gospel of peace. The gospel is the power of God to everyone who believes. Gods power is absolute. It is displayed in how He created the world. He spoke all things into existent God speaks life where there is death, corruption, sin etc. Not only did God speak the creation into existent but He overcomes all opposition so the His word recreates the paradigm of death to life. How did God over come corruption? Through the death and resurrection of Christ. In order for their to be new life there is a death that is required. God never gets revenge..He simply orders all things according to His will. This is the way that God reorders and renews all things. The gospel is gospel of peace because it is the only message where the death was successful in giving life. The gospel has no successful opposition. The gospel is the vehicle through which all of Gods word never returns void. It is always successful. The gospel is the only reality in the world where all men live before God in view of His blessing and cursing. In this way there is no man who has the power to be the absolute judge. All judgement is in Gods hands. In order for righteousness to rule God must provide the ability. In this way all mankind are completely powerless and helpless in bringing about the events in time and creating the success in the events. God is ordering the events according to His standard of judgement. Every event in time must meet the requirement of Gods justice. The line He draws between blessing and cursing. In Gods view everything that is corrupted in reality must die in order for it to be recreated. There is no man who can measure up to this standard of justice. The gospel of peace will always be successful because it is the only vehicle that puts recreation into motion. In the final judgement all men will agree with Gods eternal absolute judgement because they will see that it was only God that prevented violence in working through the gospel of peace.

"Gods covenant of grace presupposes Gods determination of the salvation of man. The spirit of the covenant is the spirit of grace. Salvation is a foreign procurement that determines the just consequences in time and in eternity as that by which identity is confirmed in terms of its future effects in us and in our eternal state in heaven. The cross is not the process to produce these effects in us but it has produced salvation in this foreign idea of its full effects in the initial saving event. This definition of a lack of self reliance is an understanding of the nature of the powers of the world to come. A real assurance is a covenant assurance which is the exercise of the understanding that God is a saving God. " me  Horse Inn's post. If you own your sin then you must pay for them. The penalty for sin is death. We all must die because of sin. This is why Christ death is so important to us. Because if Christ did not die for our sins then we are required to pay for our sin. There is no such thing as a small sin. If we break one law we are condemned by all the law. So if we own our sin then the whole weight of the law must fall upon us. There is no way that we can be accepted by obedience to the law. The smallest law broken contains weight of all the law. We must be freed from the bondage of the law. We are freed when we are accepted by the only Judge who condemns sinners to death. Christ is the only Judge who punishes people for their sins. There is no one else who is qualified to judge. When we are freed by the judge we are no longer condemned for our sin. All of our acceptance comes from Christ obedience to the law. If we no longer are judged by the law then we are completely free in Christ.