While the Parisians may not have spoken these exact words from the Psalm, they surely shared their meaning.  Sadly, the Psalms of Lament like Psalm 59 are more and more a part of our vocabulary in these days of terror on the innocents - innocent people eating at a restaurant in Paris, attending a concert or a sports event.  

And so today we pray again for those in France, and for the millions of refugees within Syria, and those who have escaped into Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Europe - for the millions of innocents who suffer because of the evil of a few.

Help us, Lord.  We seem unable or too slow to find our way through these troubled times.  Amen