Midrash sa Mga Awit 5:11: Midrash Tehillim & Midrash Tanchuma Buber

Blame God. This is spoken about the wicked Nebuchadnezzar, who destroyed the Temple and later suffered, as it is said (Daniel 4:29-30) "and from mankind you will be driven away." Rabbi Berachiah and Rabbi Chalbo in the name of Rabbi Samuel said that everything that David specified in the Book of Psalms, the wicked Nebuchadnezzar is included in one verse (Psalm 37:35) "I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree." And David said about praising Jerusalem and God (Psalm 147:12) "Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion!" and he said about God (Psalm 11:7) "For the Lord is righteous, he loves justice; upright men will see his face." But that wicked man said (Daniel 4:34) "All his acts are just and his ways are right." And similarly, you find in the words of our master Moses, peace be upon him, at the end of his song (Deuteronomy 32:4) "The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice." So that all the people of the world should not say that the attribute of justice did not apply to him and that he did not enter the land of Israel, heaven forbid, without punishment. But "The Rock, his work is perfect" applies to him. And why was that wicked man considered righteous? Because "All his acts are just." And Hannah also said (1 Samuel 2:6-7) "The Lord brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up. The Lord sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts." But that wicked man said (Daniel 4:37) "And those who walk in pride he is able to humble." God said to him, "Yesterday you said (Daniel 3:15) 'And who is the god who will deliver you from my hands?' And now you say, 'I do not want you or your punishment.' And who will make me contemptible among the people of Israel? As it is said (Isaiah 43:21) "the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise."

"Due to their many sins, they were exiled. Rabbi Alexandri said, 'Why does Jerusalem matter to her [the Roman Empire]? Only because she rebelled against you [God].'."

[(Gen. 11:1:) NOW THE WHOLE EARTH HAD ONE LANGUAGE.] This text is related (to Ps. 59:12 [11]): DO NOT KILL THEM LEST MY PEOPLE FORGET; MAKE THEM WANDER BY YOUR POWER AND BRING THEM DOWN.⁹³Tanh., Gen. 2:17; cf. Gen. R. 38:1. Against whom did David speak this scripture? He spoke it against none other than Doeg and Ahithophel. David said to the Holy One: Sovereign of the World, do not kill them by a death that you use on the rest of Adam's children; but {make them wander in the world} [MAKE THEM WANDER BY YOUR POWER] to be homeless nomads in the world. [AND BRING THEM DOWN:] and bring them down from their arrogance. Why? (Ps. 5:11 [10]:) BECAUSE THEY REBELLED AGAINST YOU. (Ps. 59:13 [12]:) FOR THE SIN OF THEIR MOUTH AND THE WORD OF THEIR LIPS < means > that they had sinned with their mouth and again with their lips. Doeg said (in I Sam. 22:9): I SAW THE SON OF JESSE COME TO NOB…. Ahithophel said to Absalom (in II Sam. 16:21): GO IN TO YOUR FATHER'S CONCUBINES…. < That was > THE SIN OF THEIR MOUTH, which they had sinned with their mouth. THE WORD OF THEIR LIPS: By the < actual > utterance on their lips. Ergo (in Ps. 59:13 [12], cont.): {THEY WERE TRAPPED IN THEIR SPEECH} [LET THEM BE TRAPPED BY THEIR PRIDE].