Georgia senator prays for Obama’s death at Christian gathering: ‘Let his days be few’

The junior senator from Georgia jokingly asked the audience at Friday's Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference to pray for the death of President Barack Obama on Friday, choosing a chilling passage from Psalms to make his point.

According to The Daily Beast's Betsy Woodruff, Republican Senator Frank Perdue jokingly told attendees: "We should pray like Psalm 109:8 says: Let his days be few."

Christians well acquainted with Psalms 108, know that it is not just a wish for Obama to be out of office, but a call for vengeance upon a rival.

According to the American Standard Bible, Psalm 109:7 begins, "When he is judged, let him come forth guilty, And let his prayer become sin."

It then continues:

Let his days be few; Let another take his office.

Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow.

Let his children wander about and beg; And let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.

Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder the product of his labor.

Let there be none to extend loving kindness to him, Nor any to be gracious to his fatherless children.

Let his posterity be cut off; In a following generation let their name be blotted out.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, And do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Let them be before the LORD continually, That He may cut off their memory from the earth;

Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness, But persecuted the afflicted and needy man, And the despondent in heart, to put them to death.

According to Woodruff, Perdue smiled after using invoking the "days be few" passage as the audience chuckled.

Among Christians, Psalm 109 is often referred to as the "Judas psalm."

Woodruff's Tweet below: