“For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.”
The prayer that God would bring down the enemies for their sin articulates the petition for divine justice based on the enemies' actual wickedness. The specific reference to cursing and lies suggests that the enemies' primary weapons are linguistic: they destroy through deceptive speech. The request that they be consumed in wrath indicates the petition for complete divine judgment. This verse returns to the petition for justice after the affirmation of trust.
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