“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.
Church Fathers on Psalms 59:12
The First Part. 1. As the Scripture is wont to set mysteries of the Psalms on the titles, and to deck the brow of a Psalm with the high announcement of a Mystery, in order that we that are about to go in may know (when as it were upon the door-post we have read what within is doing) either of whom the house is, or who is the owner of that estate: so also in this Psalm there has been written a title, of a title. For it has, “At the end, corrupt not for David himself unto the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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