“Do not let them enter into Your righteousness.”

We pray that their eyes would be blinded by You; strike them so that they cannot see. Father, we pray that You would make their loins shake continuously, that they would be seized with fear and amazement. Pour out hot indignation all over them; take hold of them tightly in Your wrathful anger. May their dwellings become empty and desolate — for whenever You chastise anyone else, they love to pile on as though You were not there. They persecute the one that You are disciplining, and by their talk they dismay the one who is suffering under Your hand. Add iniquity to their iniquity; make a great heap of their sins. Do not let them enter into Your righteousness. Blot them out of the book of the living. Do not record their names alongside the names of the righteous.
Douglas Wilson

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    1. Sadly, Dash, he is not alone. As you know, there is a whole lunatic fringe cottage industry in the Baptist world who not only practices imprecatory prayers, but also teach others to do the same. JD Hall is one of the more ‘prominent’ that comes to mind, if you’ll pardon a liberal interpretation of the word prominent.

  3. I am just trying to imagine what it must be like to be in a room with DW while he is spewing hate toward his enemies (real or perceived). I cannot wrap my mind around it.

  4. ” — for whenever You chastise anyone else, they love to pile on as though You were not there. They persecute the one that You are disciplining, and by their talk they dismay the one who is suffering under Your hand.”

    Is this a recent prayer, by any chance? Almost sounds like a subtle admission in there.

    1. Read his “Justice Primer.” (Well, don’t, but . . . ) He is obsessed with the idea of pastors being falsely accused of stuff.

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