Psalm 58: Are we truly sinful an deserving death?

Do you rulers indeed speak justly?

Do you judge uprightly among men?

No, in your heart you devise injustice,

and your hands mete out violence on the earth.

The righteous will be glad when they are avenged,

when they bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

Then men will say,

“Surely the righteous still are rewarded;

surely there is a God who judges the earth.”
(Psalm 58:1, 2, 10, 11 NIV84)

I have a hard time understanding psalms like this that speak of wrath and justice against the wicked. As I thought about this I think God revealed that in my heart I have a hard time believing how sinful the bible and God says we are. I hold so tightly to the hope of salvation for all that I forget the depth or the darkness and sin that truly and eternally would separate us from God. I am afraid of that judgement for the world. For me I trust in Jesus death and that through his grace I am saved by faith. But what about others? What about my friends and family? I am afraid for them, because not all of them know Jesus or follow him fully.

Yet I can not fear because I am doubting Jesus and the truth that he will not lose a single one who was meant to be saved as Jesus spoke of in john 6:
For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day." (John 6:38-40 NIV)

Reading David's desire for Gods wrath and justice against the wicked makes my heart turn. How can he really want that death and blood even on those who are evil? For we are evil except through Jesus. But in many ways I have not experienced the full blown consequences of sin close to home: war, rape, death, hunger, abuse etc. I live in a safe little bubble in Boulder CO and go to a church that is not persecuted. There are challenges here but they are different. My sin affects other and others are affected and harmed by my sin. If I experiencedmore of these sins that obviously hurt and kill others then I know my heart would want justice. It is hard for me to see that all sins are equal and that out of the same evil heart comes these sins that manifest differently and with different consequences.

Lord I ask for your Holy Spirit to convict me of sin and to reveal to me the depths of our sinful nature and how that leads to death and wrath. I also pray that out of that understanding would come a greater appreciation and hope in your Grace through the cross!
Amen