David is quoted in a psalm by the apostle regarding those who were slandering him. To render them defenseless, allow them to be bent over. The king, I would think, was referring to a change in command. It's crucial to recognize that the king curses those who are disloyal. To apostatize from the faith is to commit this infidelity.

It's important to realize that God sent them His warnings throughout the day via the prophets. However, not all of Israel is Israel. There was always a remnant in Israel that God protected. David directed these curses towards the merchants in his own administration. Perhaps under the leadership of Absalom.

Through the prophets, God condemned His people as wicked. However, the prophets also referred to them as righteous. This is strange since the ot never refers to a blessed individual as wicked. The lesson we needed to learn here was that the prophets were similar to the contemporary evangelist. They addressed the entire country. So they were addressing three kinds of people. The elect, the self-righteous, and the wicked. An Israelite never curses his own people. But he cursed the wicked. Consequently, there were evil and self-righteous individuals in Israel.

The nation of Israel is what the apostle is referring to here. God did not turn down his remaining followers. The apostle also discusses this in the same epistle in Romans. However, even when His chosen ones were exiled and endured, God protected them. The apostle is thus saying that God did not wait for Israel to repent; rather, it was via their rejection that the gospel was spread throughout the globe.