Budding Bumper Sticker Controversy
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This bumper sticker can be had at http://www.patriotdepot.com/prayforobamabumpersticker.aspx.
The actual verse in the American King James version of the Bible says, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.”
The vendor says, “We’ve updated the verse slightly and applied it to our President.”
A rub may come when the Basic English Bible translation is used, which says “Let his life be short; let another take his position of authority.” That, of course, could be interpreted as wishing for Obama’s death and the defecation could hit the impeller if and when this starts appearing around the nation.
Young’s Literal Translation says it yet another way, “His days are few, his oversight another taketh,” If you’d prefer a little more confusion the Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible describes it this way “May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.”
Comment by Richard Cochrane on 22 November 2009:
If you read the rest of the Psalm it gets nastier saying:
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labor.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
At least two online t-shirt and bumper sticker makers have banned the Pray for Obama gear.
The Christian Scuence Moinitor says it dislikes the idea.