The Mob of Workers of Iniquity

[Sue J Love]

I was in bed, hoping to fall asleep, when a tune came into my head. I knew it was a song from the musical Les Misérables, but I could not recall the lyrics. The Lord does that with me sometimes, puts tunes in my head, and if I can’t recall the lyrics, I sing the tune into my phone and it brings up the song for me, if it is a well known song. Well the song is titled “Do You Hear the People Sing?” And the situation was a group of students and citizens of a nation preparing a war against the government in order to overthrow them.

By Alain Boubul and Claude-Michel Schonberg
Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer
From Les Misérables

Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
.. Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!

But their plan failed. All who protested were killed, with the exception of one young man who was rescued by the father of the woman he loved.

Now, I know that if the Lord puts a song in my head that it is there for a reason, so next I went to where I left off last in my reading of the Psalms, and next was Psalm 64. Immediately I began to make a connection between the lyrics to the song and this Psalm of David. For this Psalm is about a mob of workers of iniquity scheming against King David. They thought they had perfected a secret plan to overtake the innocent. But they would then face the arrows of God, with their own tongues turned against them.

Psalm 64:1-4 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“1Hear, O God, my voice of complaint;
preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
2Hide me from the scheming of the wicked,
from the mob of workers of iniquity,
3who sharpen their tongues like swords
and aim their bitter words like arrows,
4ambushing the innocent in seclusion,
shooting suddenly, without fear.”

What I realized as I researched some of the meaning behind the words to that song, and then I read this passage of Scripture, is that the people in the musical were rebelling and fighting against the authority over them. And here we also have a mob of people scheming against David, which was also against God. And ultimately what this comes down to is a group of people who reject the authority of God over their lives, and so they fight against God, and against His messengers, so that they can keep on in their sin.

Psalm 64:5-6 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

5They hold fast to their evil purpose;
they speak of hiding their snares.
“Who will see them?” they say.
6They devise injustice and say,
“We have perfected a secret plan.”
For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.

Those who fight against God and his messengers, because they don’t like the rules that they have to follow, they want to maintain their freedom to keep on in their sin. They don’t like the limits that God and his Word put on their lives and so they fight for the right to keep living however they want. And so they will reject the gospel of Christ for a “friendlier version” which does not require that they repent of (die to) their sins and that they must obey the commands of God. So they plot evil against God’s messengers.

Psalm 64:7-10 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“7But God will shoot them with arrows;
suddenly they will be wounded.
8They will be made to stumble,
their own tongues turned against them.
All who see will shake their heads.
9Then all mankind will fear
and proclaim the work of God;
so they will ponder what He has done.
10Let the righteous rejoice in the LORD
and take refuge in Him;
let all the upright in heart exult.”

Ultimately, those who oppose God and who despise His messages, via His messengers, and who devise evil against the messengers of God, they will have to stand before the Lord and to give an account for what they did with the gospel of Christ and with the messages God kept giving them over again. God will judge them for their wicked and evil deeds and for their rebellion against Him and against His messengers which He sent to them. For they fought against God’s rules so that they could continue in sin.

But Jesus Christ taught that to come to Him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) Him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to His commands, in His power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls Him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in Him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

The Mob of Workers of Iniquity
An Original Work / July 31, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love