I am sorry. It seems I can't identify with the psalmist's confidence. The author of Psalm 7 seems pretty sure he has not "repaid an ally with evil" nor "robbed his foe without cause." Me? I'm not as confident. In fact I feel sure I have betrayed a friend, at times, and have cursed an enemy without provocation.
So if I urge the LORD to righteous anger against my enemy, then I invite God to punish me, too.
Sometimes, God doesn't have to get involved with punishing evildoers. Psalm 7:15-16 provides an example: "Whoever digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit they have made. The trouble they cause recoils on them; their violence comes down on their own heads."
My experience bears this out: Whenever I put a stumbling block in an other's path, more often than not, I stump my toe on it. Ouch! I haven't fallen into the snares I'd previously set 100 per cent of the time, but often enough to get the point: Don't be that way! Stop doing those things!
Better to take away a stumbling block, better to make the path straight, both for others and for me...
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