Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication, for my cause, my God and my Lord! Vindicate me, O LORD, my God, according to your righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me! Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, our heart’s desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.” Psalms 35:23-25
Rarely do we hear bold praying like this in our churches! God does not sleep yet the Psalmist asks him to wake up. He expects God to take up the Psalmist’s cause and vindicate him! Here is prayer for God to protect the honour of the Psalmist’s name!
Notice that it is a prayer FOR the one praying, as well as a prayer AGAINST his enemies. It is actually a prayer for God’s interference in the thought life of God’s enemies! Amazing!