A limerick based on Psalm 5:4-12.
You do not delight in evil;
against You it is feeble.
Evil boasts and deceives
and causes You to bereave.
Against it, You are lethal.
Evil once characterised me;
all evil from You it flees.
Yet You brought me into Your kingdom
with a love quite fearsome.
Now, I worship You with glee.
O God, uphold my righteousness
in the midst of much wickedness,
for they shout only deceit, —
their lies never discrete, —
and they fear not Your awesomeness.
Convict them in their guilt, —
their own destruction they quilt.
They incite only rebellion
against You and all of Heaven;
therefore, let them rot and wilt.
Yet for we who seek refuge
in the Holy Spirit's deluge,
grant us songs of joy
and let Your Son deploy
vengeance against evil's refuse.
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