PS 137:1[NOTE]THE RIVERS OF BABYLON. The exiles sat by the canals of Babylon after 586 BC. The clay records of food for King Jehoiachin, a captive there, have been found. See The Jehoiachin Ration Tablets in 2 Kings.
2There on the willows
we hung our harps,
3for there our captors requested a song;
our tormentors demanded songs of joy:
“Sing us a song of Zion.”
4How can we sing a song of Yahweh
in a foreign land?
5If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
may my right hand cease to function.
6May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not exalt Jerusalem
as my greatest joy!
7Remember, O Yahweh,
the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell:
“Destroy it,” they said,
“tear it down to its foundations!”
PS 137:7[NOTE]EDOM cheered when Jerusalem fell, Obadiah 1:10 to 14.
8O Daughter of Babylon,
doomed to destruction,
blessed is he who repays you
as you have done to us.
9Blessed is he who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.
PS 137:9[NOTE]THE HARDEST VERSE. A cry of pain from people whose own babies were killed. Many believe God does not ask us to pray this. See the Big Question The Cursing Psalms right after this psalm.
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