Ps 62 3 How long will you assault a man?
Would all of you throw him down-
this leaning wall, this tottering fence?
4 They fully intend to topple him
from his lofty place;
they take delight in lies.
With their mouths they bless,
but in their hearts they curse."
Selah
The Psalmist has spent hours in pronouncing Gods law which is the standard of Divine love, the curses which are the human and divine desires expressed as partners in overcoming all violent speech,the covenants which are the legal defense of God to treat His elect according to the standard of law keeping of Christ,the statutes which are the holistic vision of Gods kingdom in order to enjoy rest and freedom from being under constraints, and His promises which promote greater desires for more gifts. God has provided us with a language that promotes growth and wholeness.
But when sin entered the world man began to speak a violent language. The natural opposition in corruption is the violent attempt to devalue Gods work in the creation of the gifts of his neighbor. Man is unable to overcome the desire to level the playing field in redefining Gods law. There is no natural defense that was placed in man after the fall. The only defense that man has is Gods word.
We must understand that salvation is never experienced outside of God. To attempt to find help in the world is like trying to trust in the wild beast. This is why the first Psalm sets meditation of these gifts as Gods counsel. Man naturally seeks other ways to find satisfaction and wholeness. We must understand that we are forced into a corrupted world where we are being defined downward. The Psalmist is teaching that Gods purpose of revealing Himself to us in His word is to teach us the true value that He places on us that cannot be learned in any other relationship.7 My salvation and my honor depend on God ,he is my mighty rock, my refuge". Without Gods standard of love, His defense of His elect,His holistic power to constrain us, His legal declaration of our innocence and His giving us ability by giving Himself to us, we would suffer serious abuse. 4 They fully intend to topple him from his lofty place;
You see Gods word orders all things to work together for His pleasure. But because the world is corrupted God had to reveal Himself in containing His kingdom success in His word apart from corruption. So Gods salvation is set apart from the world. When we are saved we are totally accepted. We are completely sanctified. But salvation is an ongoing process by which we become like we already are. This is why the Psalmist speaks of salvation as uniting His desires with Gods desires in the time sequence.35 3Brandish spear and javelin against those who pursue me. Say to my soul, "I am your salvation." The Psalmist is expressing a desire to understand Gods word as God unites His desire with the Psalmist in a physical blessing that leads to a greater illumination of Gods salvation. When the apostle prays the the saints might know beyond their understanding he is saying that God standard in relationship is based upon His eternal love. This means that the standard is beyond any relationship that we experience on this earth. So the standard is learned by pronouncing the gifts..law, covenants etc creating the new illumination of greater beauty of Gods love for us. It is an event that is beyond the normal goodness that we experience on this earth.
We must understand that salvation is an eternal kingdom breaking into our normal world. The kingdom is created by the eternal words of God. This means that nothing in this world is real unless it is seen through the pronouncements. Because the pronouncements recreate the events and our view of reality. The apostle calls this setting your hearts on things above, not on the things of this world. You see the word of God is eternal. It is not constrained by time. When we meditate on Gods word we think in a timeless kingdom. Those hours of meditation visit us as the past experience breaking into the present. So whatever situation we find ourselves, whether we are suffering in the present or experiencing a fresh illumination of Gods salvation the remembrance of the past experience in the activity of the recreation of Gods pronouncements visits our present reality.
We must learn to develop a standard that is beyond the constraints of this world.We must be familiar with Christ as if He was the other person in the room.We must learn the pronouncements so that without the meditation we are desperate to carry on a relationship that is the foundation of all that we experience in the present. We must learn to go out of this world in the Psalm meditation and feel comfortable.

Isa. 115b Your hands are full of blood;
16 wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds
out of my sight!
Stop doing wrong,
17 learn to do right!
Seek justice,
encourage the oppressed.
Defend the cause of the fatherless,
plead the case of the widow.
Gods word was a gift to Israel. Through His word He established His law. His covenant people have the law of God written on their hearts. We speak Gods covenants, laws, statutes, curses, and promises as the language that establishes peace in the land. This is why in the ot doing good is the same thing seeking the cause of the fatherless and widow. God does not measure the genuine faith by our outward worship. 1 11 "The multitude of your sacrifices-what are they to me?" says the LORD ."I have more than enough of burnt offerings,of rams and the fat of fattened animals;I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.God is looking on the heart. Our hearts have been implanted with the seed of the word of God.
This implantation is our old will being destroyed and receiving Gods will. We now embrace Gods law as the rule by which we live in universal peace.When we worship we enter into a cosmic war in which we express our prayers to God in light of being successful in our culture. The cup is the ultimate symbol of spilled blood. We fight in worship so that we might be blessed in our world. Gods law establishes eternal justice. No matter what the present circumstances we find ourselves in we have an eternal language that will one day right all the wrongs and reward us for our trust that is waiting for that day of judgement.
This is why it is important for us to be efficient in presenting our case before Gods throne. We should be able to argue before God on the basis of His covenants, laws, decrees, curses, and promises. He says 1 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer,I will hide my eyes from you;even if you offer many prayers,
I will not listen.Your hands are full of blood;" The prophet is not necessarily talking about physical violence but going before God without understanding how to express our wills to God in a correct way. Violent language is outside the context of the Bible.
God does not work in this world in response to our actions. He works strictly by ordaining whatsoever comes to pass. God has not saved us based upon our prayers, or our forgiveness, or our obedience. But He has saved us based upon His call. He doesnt act in an emotional way. He simply speaks His word and it is accomplished. This is very important because if we imagine God as a person who pleases us emotionally then we will not learn to speak to Him according to our wills. We will always be tossed around by the emotional response. God has given us a language that reflects His the pleasure of His will. 18 "Come now, let us reason together,"says the LORD ."Though your sins are like scarlet,they shall be as white as snow;though they are red as crimson,they shall be like wool. The prophet is saying that as we express our desires to God through His laws, covenants, curses, decrees, and promises we are growing in our confidence to unite our wills with Gods will. If we are schooled in approaching God in this way we will learn that our asking is in the context of life and death. We use His law, decrees etc in a way that we are innocent...white as wool is the context of reasoning with God.We stand on the other side of the law. Its the enactment of the plea of the prophet that produces a blessed Israel. The highest confidence in two wills meeting is in the context of life and death. God loves us to be that bold.

Isa. 115b Your hands are full of blood;
16 wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds
out of my sight!
Stop doing wrong,
17 learn to do right!
Seek justice,
encourage the oppressed.
Defend the cause of the fatherless,
plead the case of the widow.
Gods word was a gift to Israel. Through His word He established His law. His covenant people have the law of God written on their hearts. We speak Gods covenants, laws, statutes, curses, and promises as the language that establishes peace in the land. This is why in the ot doing good is the same thing seeking the cause of the fatherless and widow. God does not measure the genuine faith by our outward worship. 1 11 "The multitude of your sacrifices-what are they to me?" says the LORD ."I have more than enough of burnt offerings,of rams and the fat of fattened animals;I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.God is looking on the heart. Our hearts have been implanted with the seed of the word of God.
This implantation is our old will being destroyed and receiving Gods will. We now embrace Gods law as the rule by which we live in universal peace.When we worship we enter into a cosmic war in which we express our prayers to God in light of being successful in our culture. The cup is the ultimate symbol of spilled blood. We fight in worship so that we might be blessed in our world. Gods law establishes eternal justice. No matter what the present circumstances we find ourselves in we have an eternal language that will one day right all the wrongs and reward us for our trust that is waiting for that day of judgement.
This is why it is important for us to be efficient in presenting our case before Gods throne. We should be able to argue before God on the basis of His covenants, laws, decrees, curses, and promises. He says 1 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer,I will hide my eyes from you;even if you offer many prayers,
I will not listen.Your hands are full of blood;" The prophet is not necessarily talking about physical violence but going before God without understanding how to express our wills to God in a correct way. Violent language is outside the context of the Bible.
God does not work in this world in response to our actions. He works strictly by ordaining whatsoever comes to pass. God has not saved us based upon our prayers, or our forgiveness, or our obedience. But He has saved us based upon His call. He doesnt act in an emotional way. He simply speaks His word and it is accomplished. This is very important because if we imagine God as a person who pleases us emotionally then we will not learn to speak to Him according to our wills. We will always be tossed around by the emotional response. God has given us a language that reflects His the pleasure of His will. 18 "Come now, let us reason together,"says the LORD ."Though your sins are like scarlet,they shall be as white as snow;though they are red as crimson,they shall be like wool. The prophet is saying that as we express our desires to God through His laws, covenants, curses, decrees, and promises we are growing in our confidence to unite our wills with Gods will. If we are schooled in approaching God in this way we will learn that our asking is in the context of life and death. We use His law, decrees etc in a way that we are innocent...white as wool is the context of reasoning with God.We stand on the other side of the law. Its the enactment of the plea of the prophet that produces a blessed Israel. The highest confidence in two wills meeting is in the context of life and death. God loves us to be that bold.

Our salvation is not just a personal salvation that gives us forgiveness of sins and unites us to Christ. But it is a salvation in which we enter into the eternal kingdom of God. Even tho this salvation is free and only given to helpless sinners who are justified because of Christ work, yet there still is a price that is placed on everything that we face in this life. In other words justification is not just simply that we are declared righteous and we are to give all of the glory to God. Its not just that we are unworthy by receiving the righteousness of Christ.
Our salvation is described as being redeemed. The bible says that we were bought with a price. The redemption is compared to being bought out of a slave market. You see this story played out with the apostle and Onesimus. He needed the apostle to intervene in his dispute with his master. The apostle viewed Onesimus in light of the kingdom of God and not just as a sinner who was justified. There was this working principle of further value in the context of the kingdom of God that the apostle applied in this situation. The apostle said that he would pay what Onesimus owed as the further proof of ongoing redemption.
You see this taught in the Revelation. The persecuted saints enter heaven and act as intercessors for the suffering saints on the earth. Rev. 6 10 "They called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" Revelation teaches that God is the governor over all time. The Lamb on the throne is teaching that He paid the price for these suffering saints. But it also teaches that there is an ongoing universal system of Gods justice and equity that overrules all of the governments of this earth. Rev. 14 3"And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth." Here these saints who suffered on this earth are said to be redeemed from the earth. So redemption has his idea that the price is still being added up until the saints enter heaven. The final resting place is said to be the final redemption from the earth.
Gods government over the earth is ruled at all times by a price. We are not only taught that God paid the price at the cross but that the Purchase price is ongoing in the Lamb who ascended to the throne. The revelation says that this eternal inheritance that awaits us is based upon Gods absolute justice over all time in which He provides all that we need in this eternal redemption. God not only paid the price for our redemption but He also will judge the nations by repaying us according to our suffering not on this earths value but upon the value of Christ. There is an eternal voice that moves us to our final redemption in the blessing and the curse.

Ps 58
1 Do you rulers indeed speak justly?
Do you judge uprightly among men?
2 No, in your heart you devise injustice,
and your hands mete out violence on the earth.
3 Even from birth the wicked go astray;
from the womb they are wayward and speak lies.
4 Their venom is like the venom of a snake,
like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
5 that will not heed the tune of the charmer,
however skillful the enchanter may be.
6 Break the teeth in their mouths, O God;
tear out, O LORD , the fangs of the lions!
7 Let them vanish like water that flows away;
when they draw the bow, let their arrows be blunted.
8 Like a slug melting away as it moves along,
like a stillborn child, may they not see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns-
whether they be green or dry-the wicked will be swept away. F112
10 The righteous will be glad when they are avenged,
when they bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 Then men will say,
"Surely the righteous still are rewarded;
surely there is a God who judges the earth."
We must understand that God has created all things by the word of His mouth. This creative method is what controls all things. In order for God to act as the supreme ruler over all governments He must create and sustain all things by a perfect description according to His attributes. Gods creation must be the exhibit of perfect symmetry and beauty. In this context God judges all other rulers of the earth.
In order for us to live in a perfect ordered society we must live in the communication of God that is the expression of His perfect will in unifying our desires in our full salvation. So Gods perfect description of His creation dwells in us. Everything that is out of order becomes a communication whether reveal or mysterious of our inward frustration. God has given us a communication of His power to unite our desires with His in the curse.
The bible teaches that all communication that opposes God has been devised by men who rule over other men. The voices that oppose salvation are kind of like a glass of filthy waters that are pour down from high places on the poor. In order for these schemes to become a part of the culture they must be taught in the context of a kind of spell. The highest authority is having the ability to repeat the false teaching to the most people in the most repetitive way. But this Psalm teaches that Gods curse upon the wicked is an eternal system that overrules all of the effects of decline of the culture.
The eternal curse is like an enforcement of the poor who are without power to effect the harsh circumstances that are created by despots. When we pronounce the curses we experience the same frustration as a snake handler who is unable to charm a snake. But Gods kingdom is not fully satisfied on this earth. All of the pronouncements that we pray are stored up in heaven and will be rewarded to us in the judgement. Ps 58 11 Then men will say,"Surely the righteous still are rewarded;surely there is a God who judges the earth." We will never be satisfied with the circumstances under earthly rulers. No matter how good we are at pointing out the corruption it will not change the course of this earth. This Psalm is teaching us that we must place all of our confidence through the curse in the final judgement. Only then will the future unity of the judgement visit our present circumstances.

Penitent Psalms
Ps 38 15 I wait for you, O LORD ;
you will answer, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, "Do not let them gloat
or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."
Ps 6 8My eyes are dimmed with sorrow,
worn out because of all my foes."
Ps 102 9All day long my enemies taunt me;
in their rage, they make my name a curse.*
130 7 "O Israel, put your hope in the LORD ,
for with the LORD is unfailing love
and with him is full redemption".

There are seven penitent Psalms. Each of these Psalms opens up with a two fold confession. There is a confession of sin and a compliant of a physical injury. Both of these corruptions are interchangeable. The two fold confession is part of the entire Psalm in which we also find the teaching of the curse. These Psalms are teaching a very important principle in understanding our relationship to the law of God. Just like the Psalms teach that the law is not just a standard by which mankind is to act but its also an instrument that is redefined by the wicked in order to create a culture of godlessness. Here the Psalmist is teaching us the proper way to communicate the teaching of the corruption of the saint as a instrument to promote blessing.
Not only have we been forgiven of all of our sins but we have been saved from using the law of God as our personal instrument to curse others. These doctrines of grace are not steps to achieve in order to gain some kind of grace but they are like a fence that is put up in order to guard the covenant of blessing that God has established. In a system where you divide these doctrines and speak of them as individual principles that are parts that make up a whole you wont be as dogmatic about the need of seeing the spirit of the whole doctrine in each individual doctrine. This is why the bible describes this view of corruption in the context of the voice of the curse. In other words it is just as important to know the biblical context of the corruption as it is to be able to apply it in the context of blessing.
The point is that the teaching of justification of a saint is made clearer by applying the pronouncement of the curse as the foundation of the human inability. Without a proper understanding of human inability you will have the wrong application of justification by faith. Because justification is the foundation of the pronouncement of the governing creation of God through pronouncing the covenants, curses, promises, commands, decrees and statutes. Justification is not really the foundation of personal devotion that is expressed in praise or prayer. In these penitent Psalms we find an expression of a personal complaint about the corruption of sin that is the foundation of kingdom pronouncement. The Psalmist does not find relief of his anger,fear and guilt in forgiveness but in the legal eternal pronouncement of the curse.

The bible says that we cannot depend upon any human being to advance Gods agenda on this earth. We must understand that the bible when speaking about a change that takes place in our lives only has one standard. Gods change is called renewal. There is only one way that God renews all things. Any renewed reality must come about through death. When sin entered the world it brought death. The bible teaches that all things that die both physical and meta physical are under the pronouncement of a curse. Anything that is corrupted must receive the consequences of the laws demands. This is what the bible means when it says that a little leaven ...leavens the whole lump. It means that if there is any corruption that exist no matter how small it corrupts the whole part. You drop a poison in the ocean and the whole ocean is corrupted. This means that God measures evil according to His view of it. Gods measurement is absolute. He will not accept a particle amount of good. It must measure up to His the standard of His law.
This is why God not only gave us the rule but He also pronounced a curse upon the violation. We must understand that Gods curse is not just the warning but its the voice that prevents us from trusting in anything that we believe that shares in Gods standard of renewal. In other words the curse is not just spoken as a one time warning but it speaks until all things are renewed. God comes and will not be silent. God speaks from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets. Gods judgements are sure and stead fast. We who are translated into His kingdom are held safe by the voice that silences the opposition to Gods kingdom.
When we worship God we are entering into the final judgement upon sin and corruption. We not only enter into a potential for God to work according to His law but we belong to a kingdom that is advanced when we learn how to use the curses of His law to kill the opposition to His kingdom. The reason that we do not learn a quiet and unassuming disposition is because we have not heard the final judgement of His curse. We would rather involve ourselves in petty disputes that create distention. We have not learned to fear Gods judgements that are compared to the forces of nature that are beyond our power. How can God be praised when we face these creative forces? Because they teach us that the things of this world and powers are temporary. When we experience Gods power we develop an eternal mindset. We have Psalms that takes us through disasters as pronouncements of Gods curses that silence the will of the flesh.