“If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow; he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts. Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made. His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.” -Psalm 7:12–16
The imagery here is moving and intense. God is described in the language of a warrior and the evil man in that of a pregnancy: conception, gestation, and birth. Finally, there is the language of poetic justice as the snares and mischief he meant for others returns and descend upon him violently.
There is a strange beauty about the poetic justice of God’s judgment; yet, we are saddened by the repentance that could have been. “As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”” -Hebrews 3:15
Christ stands ready to forgive. He suffered all of God’s wrath for sin (1 John 2:2). The debt has been paid for sinners who repent and cast themselves at the merciful feet of this noble prince.