Psalms 59:13

Psa. 59:13. "Consume them," etc. The title of the Psalm shows that the occasion of David's penning this Psalm was Saul's persecuting of him. Here seems, therefore, to be an imprecation of God's wrath on Saul to consume and cut him off from the earth; and yet, when Saul was cut off from the earth, how did he rend his clothes, and mourn and weep and fast for Saul as well as Jonathan (2 Samuel 1:11; 2 Samuel 1:12), and how did David revenge his death on the Amalekite that slew him, and how did he lament Saul's death as the death of one that he greatly loved and [who] was very dear to him, in his elegy; which is a great evidence that David's imprecations of God's vengeance on his enemies, in the Book of Psalms, are not the expressions or breathings of his own spirit, but prophecies uttered; prophetical curses denounced by the Spirit of God. (See note on David's Elegy, 2 Samuel 1:17.)

Psa. 65:8