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What's the theological take on praying for something bad to happen to someone?

For example, in Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye prays ”May God Bless and Keep the Czar far away from here!”

In the movie Keeping the Faith, the Sikh bartender talks about a prayer: May those who love us, love us. And those who don’t love us – may God turn their hearts. And if He cannot turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles, so that we may know them by their limping

So if I prayed Please, God, make something happen to Donald Trump so that he could no longer be president – which is essentially a prayer for misfortune, what’s the theological view on that?

Are only ‘positive’ prayers theologically acceptable?

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