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This Week's Sermon: "Pour Out Your Indignation Upon Them"

Part 5 of the series "Psalms: Thinking and Feeling with God"

Psalms that curse can make us squirm.

Is this really in the Bible? What about Jesus' command to love?

The key to understanding the imprecatory or cursing psalms is to see how they are handled by the New Testament authors—and even see them on the tongue of Jesus on the cross.

These psalms are both prophetic of God's judgment and reflective of the suffering of God's anointed. They help us to approve of God's judgment, anticipate the sacrifice of Christ, and incline our hearts toward forgiveness and forbearance.