Psalms 58-60

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Dealing with wicked rulers in this world is nothing new. People like Adolf Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, and Pol Pot, are just a few names that come to mind who were responsible for the killing of millions of people collectively around the world. These kinds of rulers will always exist. Why? Because of two critical factors. The first factor is that Satan is at work in this world - 

"Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour." 

The second factor is explained by David in Psalms 58:3 - "These wicked people were born sinners." They are wicked, self-centered, controlling individuals who are void of justice and mercy. 

How does evil overtake and consume these men?  God tells us how it happens in 2 Timothy 2:26 -

"Perhaps God will change those people’s hearts, and they will learn the truth. 26 Then they will come to their senses and escape from the devil’s trap. For they have been held captive by him to do whatever he wants."

In Psalms 58, David is disgusted with the wicked rulers of his day. In this chapter he indicts them of a lack of justice, the spreading of violence around the world, and wicked self-centeredness. He also prays that the Lord God Almighty would destroy them and wash them away from the world so that true believers can see God's power, the proof that wickedness does not prevail, and that God is the ultimate Judge of justice whom all men will one day stand before.

Psalms 59 is yet another prayer to the Lord requesting that God avenge the wicked for their wickedness so that all of Israel will know God prevails in justice.

Psalms 60, however, is a different kind of song and prayer. David uses it as a teaching tool. He reminds those who sing this song of the need all of us to depend on God. David learned early on the human help is nothing. Only God can work the mighty and the impossible!