God knows the best punishments.
Psalm 59:1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
No one knows how to deliver better than God, don't lean on your own understanding, don't tell God how to deliver you, and don't take vengeance into your own hands.
2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
God is omniscient, He knows what they are doing more than you. He is also omnipotent, He doesn't need any help in dispatching with the workers of iniquity. What He does need is a legal standing to step in and you give Him that when you pray. Also, it is not right for Him to answer your prayer and judge others for sins that you yourself are guilty of. First, examine yourself, confess and repent of any sins or errors that you have committed. Stand on the Lord's blood and then God will have a legal right to step in deliver you.
3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord.
You see, this prayer is for those who are suffering for the name of Jesus and their stand for the Lord. If you are suffering for your transgression or for your sin then you need to confess and repent. Otherwise you are like a thief going to the Police and asking them to arrest a thief who stole money from you which you in turn stole from the Bank.
4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
However, once you have cleansed yourself of sin you will discover that the world hates you just as it hated Jesus and they will prepare themselves to attack you without any fault on your part. When this happens Jesus is involved because you are suffering for His name.
5 Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
We call them "gangs" and they are like a pack of dogs.
7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
Cursing, threats, this is what you will hear and they act as if there were no God.
8 But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
It is not good enough to simply defeat them or simply deliver you. No, God wants to hold them up in derision. Let them be an example to everyone of what happens if you dare to touch God's anointed.
9 Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.
Think about Jesus', He prayed for God's deliverance but He also said "not my will but thine be done". Jesus death on the cross was God's will, but after that He delivered Him from death, raising Him up in resurrection and setting Him at His right hand. They killed Jesus out of envy thinking they could keep their position, God is laughing at them, holding them in derision as He makes Jesus the king of Kings and Lord of Lords.
10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.
How much better is this than anything we could have imagined. When they have to stand before the judge to be judged in the things they have done, you will be standing beside the Lord!
11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
After Jesus was crucified God delivered Him and He judged those that crucified Him. But He didn't kill them, He scattered them. They refuse to read Isaiah 53 because it is so clearly referring to Jesus. When they read the New Testament today they are totally convicted. They cannot have another Messiah, they don't know what the genealogy is. When you look at Jesus genealogy it is crystal clear, not only is He the promised Messiah but there cannot be another. When you see Him crucified on the cross as the Passover lamb it is also crystal clear, He is the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world, there can be no other. When you see how for forty years the atoning sacrifice was not received by God ultimately concluding in the Jews being scattered and the Temple destroyed fulfilling the sign of Jonah the Lord gave them you know that Jesus is the Messiah, there can be no other. But if the Jews had been killed and wiped out in 70 AD everyone would have forgotten. Making Israel this cup of trembling and stone of stumbling to the whole world continually reminds them. It is wonderful.
12 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.
Jesus is the son of God, think of how arrogantly they treated Him and spoke to Him. Now all those words are like gravel in their mouth.
13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
You see, the Jews do not get to return unto the land until after the Holocaust.
14 And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
How beautiful is this. Before they went around like a pack of wild dogs terrorizing the neighborhood, but now they go around like mangy mongrels, looking for any crumbs they can eat. This is what happened in the Ghettos in Germany before the Holocaust.
15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
This is a picture of the tribulation. All those who are high and mighty, proud and arrogant will be like this.
16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.
Meanwhile all those that were mocked and ridiculed for putting their trust in the Lord will be like this, singing of the Lord's power and mercy.
17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.
