This tweet about Lauren Boebert appeared while I was browsing, and I got curious. Is there really a verse like that in the Bible? 


I quickly searched Psalms 109:8, and yes, it's there, and those were really the words!  And I remembered, yes, I've seen these words before, but I never thought about them as how Lauren Boebert used them. 


At first, I thought Boebert was a woman pastor, as it seemed she was speaking from a pulpit. I thought then "Wow, where did she get that kind of cruelty to say those things from the pulpit?"


Then I found out she's a US Congresswoman, representing Colorado's third congressional district, a Republican and a gun rights activist.


That pulpit was reportedly at a Christian family camp meeting in Colorado. She was invited as their speaker.


What was even shocking was that the audience applauded her rapturously and loudly! And how they laughed! That was a Christian family camp meeting, by the way, and who attends Christian family camp meetings?  Christian parents and children, of course. And presumably some guests, whom they could be persuading to become Christians. 


If you were a not-Christian guest there, and you love Trump, but you're compassionate and kind, would you have felt good as Lauren Boebert prayed for President Biden's death, and then continue to say "Hallelujah! Glory to God!"?


Read the complete chapter of Psalms 109:

1  (To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.) Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

2  For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

3  They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

4  For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

5  And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

6  Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

7  When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

8  Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

9  Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

10  Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

11  Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

12  Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

13  Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

14  Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

15  Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

16  Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

17  As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

18  As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

19  Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

20  Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

21  But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

22  For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

23  I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

24  My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

25  I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

26  Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

27  That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.

28  Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

29  Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

30  I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

31  For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

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