It pays to be God's friend.
It does NOT pay to be His enemy.
The king- aka David aka God's friend- asks and receives. He is blessed with riches and victory. Any thing good the king has or does is credited not to himself, but to the 'unfailing love' of God. This is grace.
But the enemies of the king- aka the enemies of God- are incinerated. Not just defeated, but utterly destroyed and all traces of their lineage with them. Annihilation.
The thing about this juxtaposition is that both the king and the enemies are devoted to God. In the Old Testament, when God said He wanted something to be devoted to Him, He wanted it totally destroyed: no living thing left breathing, no structure left standing. The enemies of the king are devoted to God by their physical destruction. The king is devoted to God by his spiritual destruction of self. The king recognizes that he is nothing, and all the good is by the grace of God. Since the king here is David, it makes sense he'd say that, being the same guy who also says things like "Surely I was sinful at birth."
We need to recognize as David has that it is God who is good, and it is through Him alone that Good wins out.
It is all about God.
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