The coalition of evil

Ps 58  3"Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward and speak lies.

4 Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,"

This Psalm teaches that all the problems of the world are a result of a failure of leadership. Its both spiritual and political. And you see this universal curse of men going astray put in the greater context of these political and spiritual failures. The Psalms describe evil in the context of Gods war with the forces of evil in the high places. This is why the bible makes distinctions about government, average citizens, and religious authorities. Evil is put in the context of leaders and followers. In this way the bible is not written from mans horizontal view but from Gods governing view as He sits on His throne from the heavens. 

God has established His law as the foundation and back bone of society. It is the only authority that creates spiritual and cultural peace. But men are not necessarily crooked from the universal imputation of sin from the garden but from using their sinful thoughts to become their own gods. There is God in heaven but there are also gods on earth. So the Psalms teach that God in heaven addresses the gods on earth as representing the crooked culture that is established in the context of the average sinner. In this way God always has a single accusation when the Psalms speak of universal evil in societies. We could say that when the Psalms talk about universal evil we are saying that they are in the context of the waywardness of the gods of this earth. This is why Ive been saying that God must work in an indirect way through eternal forces to oppose the opposition of the gods of this earth that hold men under their power. When God over turns their evil power ,grace is established and people are freed.

So there is only one way to oppose evil that is far beyond our pay scale. This Psalm is addressing the evil as God sees it. And really if you have never spoken the curses then your probably seeing the redemptive success from the bottom up. Your probably talking in the context of the threat of evil coming from someone who cannot threaten you. Some sinner who has no power to oppose you. But the bible teaches that sin is so deceptive that its woven in the vary fabric of what we trust in to success, our buying and selling, and our participation in the culture through recreation and arts. We all are biased toward our accepting evil for our profit. But the curse has no favorites. It addresses the evil in the most righteous looking cultural.  The curse rises up above our prejudice and destroys the club mentality and the prejudiced we have in the presence of sinners.