Second World War. The country of Babylon was 1000 kilometres to the east. someone attack then he has a special reason for it. This is the repayment. Psalm 137. There is no taint of personal jealousy, spite, or ambition in these psalms. 1:15-16). the psalm, you will see that he (or she) was in Babylon. musical instrument ~ something that makes music when you What does David call himself in verse 2? I don’t have time to develop them thoroughly, but perhaps they will stimulate you to see the value of even such a difficult passage as this: The psalmist is not simply trying to address us, but to shock us into seeing the awfulness of sin. God has entrusted to us the ministry of reconciliation (2 Cor. right now. "Foundations" are the hard bit of ground that you build a psalmist ~ the person that wrote a psalm (or psalms). How did they address the faith crisis of exile? If Jesus lets Verse 7. Exile is thus primarily not a geographical issue, but it is a social, moral, cultural, liturgical and spiritual issue; an understanding that one is in a hostile, alien situation. the Tigris River and the Euphrates River. But the same blood of Jesus that offers mercy to those who repent brings condemnation to those who refuse to repent (John 3:18, 36). Psalm 137 is one of several psalms called imprecatory psalms. Answer: Psalm 137:9 is found in one of the Imprecatory Psalms (or Precatory Psalms) that speak of violence against the enemies of God. agree with someone). Great Babylon was destroyed. Words in boxes are from the Bible. A curse was a Jesus said, "You have heard that people used to say, An 18:23, 32). Paul cursed Elymas and called down blindness on him (Acts 13:9-11). weapon (a way to fight) in war. It is not easy to do it, but Jesus gives us the The world might taunt the Christian, but it knows nothing of the joys of being a child of God. The case is left in Jehovah's hands. After the Babylonians had plundered Jerusalem destroyed the city killed many of the people and carried the rest off to the … Thus an understanding of God’s purposes to punish sin and reward righteousness, to bless the earth through His chosen people, and to fulfill His Word through His prophets helps explain the psalmist’s harsh words against Babylon. Psalm 137 English Standard Version (ESV) How Shall We Sing the Lord's Song? "Knock it down, knock it down to its Psalm 137:6 If I do not remember you, let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land? 5. Who is the greatest adversary that all of us have? An imprecatory psalm is one that seeks God’s judgment and, consequently, pain and destruction on others, such as an enemy. But God prophesied that it would happen and it did! It made them sad when they asked them to sing. They probably talked about that the *Jews were *prisoners in Babylon "the *exile". children in 586 B.C. Every chapter is devoted to praise and thanksgiving from the author to Yahweh. 12:14). How badly do you want to see God’s church established? Copyright 1993, Steven J. Cole, All Rights Reserved. Rather, he was asking God to vindicate His people who had been mistreated and to fulfill His plan through them. But it is not Psalm 137; The atomic number of the highest allowed element on the periodic table allowed for a point nucleus by the Bohr model and the Dirac equation. Psalm 137 is an imprecatory psalm. 4. "*Unkind" means the opposite of "kind". hit it (cymbals, drum), blow in it (flute, trumpet, horn, shofar) or touch it on harps. people that made us *prisoners were very *unkind. The imprecatory psalms are not rooted in a spirit of personal vengeance, but rather in a passionate desire for God to vindicate His people by judging the wicked. If the chief of sinners could find mercy, none is beyond hope (1 Tim. Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. If someone hits you on the right side of your face, let him hit you on children and hit them with a rock. How shall we sing the Lord’s song — Those sacred songs which are appropriated to the worship of the true God in his temple, and are appointed by him to be sung only to his honour and in his service; in a strange land — When we are banished from our own temple and country, and among those who are strangers and enemies to our God and his worship? God’s Word can and must be trusted. I've recently become interested in theology, and although I have not taken the chance to read the entirety of the bible, I guess I have a tendency to look up famous quotes from it, and this is one I am curious about. We see this difference in practice when we compare David’s imprecatory psalms with his personal actions. You’re going to have to roll up your sleeves and do some hard thinking! You must let them hit you again! many of the *prisoners and their sons and In 586 B.C., the soldiers from Babylon destroyed the In the case of David’s imprecations, those who opposed the king opposed God, because the king was God’s anointed. A covenant ~ two people have agreed what each should do A prisoner is someone in a prison. The mourning of the exiles in Babylon. kilometres to the east. v3 For there the It’s a verse that may cause some to doubt the inspiration of the Bible. At the outset, I must say that there is no simple, concise solution to the problems raised by such psalms. We call them canals. ... 137:5-9 What we love, we love to think of. The Search OF the Savior: Why Jesus Came, Part 2 (Gal. Or it is someone in a place that they cannot go away from. meaning. The entire human race has rebelled against God. So they did not want them to grow up. The nation Israel was to be a people under God’s rule. *covenant is when two people (or groups of people) agree. Some texts are fun to preach because they’re obviously helpful and easy to apply. This means that we can say when the *psalmist wrote Psalm 137. If men could commit horrible crimes and never pay or if nations were allowed to perpetrate atrocities and never be called to account, we could rightly conclude that there is no righteous God in heaven. There are three approaches we must take to understand the imprecatory psalms: We must view them in light of God’s purposes; in light of the psalmist’s attitude; and, in light of New Testament revelation. capital city of Edom!). The thought of Jerusalem in ruins brought these Jews to tears. He promised to fully repay Babylon and to level its walls (Jer. And yet Jesus blasted the Pharisees with strong words (Matthew 23). He does this in two ways. To view these psalms in light of the New Testament, we need to understand four things: Some think that the lex talionis (law of retribution, “eye for an eye”; Exod. It was an enemy of Judah. Jerusalem and Zion. The New Testament is a more complete revelation than the Old, but it does not contradict it. There they that carried us away — Our new masters, who had made us their slaves, and carried us captives out of our own land; required of us a song — דברי שׁיר, the words of a song: in the LXX., λογους ωδων, words of songs. They would not settle for anything less. Babylon. Since there are a number of imprecatory psalms, and since these passages have caused many doubts and questions in the hearts of sincere believers, I thought that we should grapple with the problems they present before we leave our study of the Psalms. Jerusalem on. To prepare the world for the coming of Messiah, God chose Abraham and his descendants through Jacob. They went between Old ideas (like "an eye for an eye") In its whole form of nine verses, the psalm reflects the yearning for Jerusalem as well as hatred for the Holy City's enemies with sometimes violent imagery. was right for another reason. Do not get angry yourself ... it will not What kind of difficult circumstances would it take to cause you to lay those desires aside? The purpose of this paper is to analyse Psalm 137 to ascertain what Israel’s response was in a time of exile. Jerusalem or one of the towns near it. They did not want the children to fight the people that Just as a scream in the night gets our adrenaline flowing and motivates us to action, the psalmist wants us to have an emotional reaction to the sin which has taken place. Psalm 137:1, ESV: "By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion." tongue ~ the part of our mouth that we talk with. 5:44). The *Jews lived in Judah. There are many scriptures that can be ripped out of their context to make a case against them. enemies. When God says that something will happen, you can count on it. v9 He will catch your 23:4-5; Prov. But on a judicial level, they called down God’s judgment upon men who perverted God’s truth. v6 My *tongue will That verse reads, “Happy is the one who seizes your infants / and dashes them against the rocks.”. Psalm 137 is a hymn expressing the yearnings of the Jewish people during their Babylonian exile. They didn’t have it all that bad in Babylon. stick to the top of my mouth Psalm 137 Explained. It may also have been written many years into the exile. they cannot go away from. It shocks us. The Old Testament was not an erroneous revelation that the New Testament corrected, but rather an incomplete revelation that the New Testament fulfilled. First, there will be a future judgment on all nations and on every person. was home again. Verses 7 - 9: Edom was a country to the south-east of The psalmist was invoking God to fulfill the promise He had given through Jeremiah the prophet. What does away with all the darkness and gloom? 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. To carry out this plan, God promised to bless those who bless His people, and to curse those who curse them. It is the *covenant name. 25:21). When temporal judgment is withheld, it is because, in His grace and patience, God is offering the opportunity to repent. It is a cry every righteous person can identify with. Do we ask, what reward? But This period in the Bible is called “the day of the Lord.” God’s Word is abundantly clear on this point (e.g., 2 Thess. Second, sometimes the deeds of a nation or a person are so cruel and corrupt that God brings temporal judgment. This book clearly provides hope and confidence in the Lord as the maker of all things, the ultimate ruler of everything including the universe. It is a context of worship in exile. This psalm, clearly reflecting the dislocation and trauma of the Babylonian exile, brings the writer’s pain to God. may be bad. They took the people that lived there as *prisoners to Babylon. Tell people about the new ideas of Jesus. In the New Testament, Jesus corrected the common mistaken notion that the law taught hatred for enemies. capital city of Judah, Jerusalem. He said Babylon, someone will destroy you! In the case of the other imprecatory psalms, they are all national, not personal in character. Checking. It is a cruel punishment, but it was a case of Babylon reaping what it had sown. 5:18-19). v7 *LORD, remember countries fight each other. If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. list at the end explains the other words that have a *star by them. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. If you look at verse There were Just as these faithful Jews could not sing Zion’s songs in Babylon, so God’s people today should not join in the frivolities of the world. Psalm 137EU (nach der Zählung der Septuaginta und der Vulgata: Psalm 136, lateinische Anfangsworte: Super flumina Babylonis) ist einer der bekanntesten biblischen Psalmen.Seine Eröffnungszeilen – „An den Strömen von Babel …“, engl. Just as God’s purpose to punish sin and reward righteousness is a revelation of His righteous character, so His purpose to bless the earth through His chosen people is a revelation of His love and mercy. The lex talionis was to be applied impartially by judges to carry out justice and to discourage others from evil (Deut. 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. is a special name for God that only his people use. They stedfastly resolved to keep up this affection. Does the thought of a soldier bashing a baby’s head against a rock cause you revulsion? The psalm begins with an expression of sorrow over Zion. 2 There on the poplars we hung our harps, 3 for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” 4 How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land? This was reinforced with an inner wall 21 feet thick, 300 feet high, with towers 420 feet high every 60 feet. The Edomites ought to have been friendly with … 5:5-6)? What the *psalmist said in 516 B.C. There comes a point at which not to judge sin would be to condone it. Should we (Ps. From 1977-1992 he was the pastor of Lake Gregory Community Church in Crestline, California. They even did this to *Jewish children in the It had inflicted this awful torture on others; it would reap the same punishment itself. He showed that the true interpretation of the law requires us to love even our enemies (Matt. laugh with a song from Zion!". v2 There we hung up foreign land. in a quiet way (harp, lyre). One of the rules in Judah was "an eye for an eye". back! Psalm 137:6 Psalm 137:8 EXPOSITION. When the psalmist prays for Babylon to have its infants dashed against the rocks, he is asking that the law of retribution be carried out through God’s prescribed means (a warring nation) to punish Babylon with the same evil Babylon had inflicted on Israel. There are four practical lessons I’d like to note from Psalm 137. He often prayed that God would take action against his enemies. 24:20; Deut. 2. We need to understand that God’s timing is not our timing. > 1 By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. It is the same kind of righteous anger that would cause us to pray that a murderer or child molester be brought to justice. „By the rivers of Babylon …“ – … Thus when the psalmist invokes God to destroy Babylon, he is asking God to fulfill His prophetic word and thus prove Himself faithful. He will be very happy then! (here, God and his people). 2 On the willows there we hung up our lyres. made them sad. He is a God of recompenses, and will deal out justice with impartiality. 139:21-22)? Remember the words of Jesus: "Love your 2. *foundations!". This is the context for Psalm 137. In fact, verse 9 is probably the most difficult verse in the book of Psalms. He Psalm 137 is one of several psalms called imprecatory psalms. There were also But God’s Word is profitable not only for teaching, but also for reproof, correction, and training in righteousness. vocabulary) on Psalm 137. Jesus gave us new rules. Could you say, with the psalmist, that you exalt God’s church above your highest personal joy (v. 6)? Psalms of David. B.C. But I say to you, Do not fight against He also Babylon because the *Jews had not obeyed God. If God has promised something in His Word, He will fulfill it. Who could imagine that such a mighty city would become a heap of ruins? Psalm 137 is a hymn expressing the yearnings of the Jewish people during their Babylonian exile. Paul said to bless those who persecute you (Rom. 5:17). we do not have to copy him. people attacking them. (If you like words, you may like to Then in verses 3-6, the abuse of the nation of Israel suffered under the Babylonian Empire is remembered. eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. He will do this if this is what he wants. The Story of Psalm 137. In 516 B.C., Persia (now Iran) destroyed Psalm 137 (Greek numbering: Psalm 136) is one of the best known of the Biblical psalms.Its opening lines, "By the rivers of Babylon..." (Septuagint: "By the waters of Babylon...") have been set to music on several occasions. They easily could have been assimilated into the Babylonian way of life. house on. Just as God’s purpose to punish sin reveals His righteousness and His purpose to bless the earth through His chosen people reveals His love, so His purpose to fulfill His Word reveals His faithfulness. In 536 B.C. if I do not remember you, Jerusalem. If we read the Scripture in context and then go to other Scriptures and history we find its true meaning. 19:18), “You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord.” The apostle Paul quoted from the Old Testament when he commanded Christians not to take vengeance (Rom. foundations ~ what people build houses on. 19:20-21). Now the *psalmist says that soon someone will destroy Babylon. Instead of justice, what does David want from God? What he thought was right in 516 B.C. B.C. killed the children. You can trust God to do what He promises. Those that rejoice in God, for his sake make Jerusalem their joy. He is invoking God for the judicial punishment of the wicked. He will be very happy then! Michael, the prince of Jerusalem, answers in Psalm 137:7, Remember, O Lord, etc. God’s people live on! If you asked for bad things to happen to people, it was a curse. with a *Jew. written in EasyEnglish Level A (1200 words). How earnestly do you yearn for righteousness for yourself and God’s people? small rivers. In 586 B.C., the soldiers from Babylon destroyed the capital city of Judah, Jerusalem. There are three broad purposes of God which, when under-stood, help us to see why the psalmist would invoke God to call down such awful judgments: God is righteous and just. Bible / Our Library / Bible Commentaries / The Treasury of David / Psalm / Psalm 137 / Psalm 137:7; Share Tweet. What is the message of Psalm 137? How can such a verse be reconciled with Jesus’ command to love our enemies? Or did somebody else write it, and put it in David’s book of psalms? 3:26-39; 4:1-12; 12:1-5). The psalmist, then, is a man who identifies with God’s righteous purpose to judge all evil. This was the We do not know. something that is very, very bad.). Zion was one of the hills that they had built the city of It’s not the kind of psalm that lends itself to easy preaching. by the rivers in Babylon. Also, in Isaiah 13:16, in the context of a prophecy of God’s judgment on Babylon for her sins, Isaiah specifically prophesied that their little ones would be dashed to pieces before their eyes. trees. War is when Psalm 137:1, KJV: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." So he cries out for God to act. If you look at verses 1-3 of This *psalmist probably wrote the psalm between 536 and 516 B.C. But this was not the intent of that law. An EasyEnglish Translation with Notes (about 1200 word Today we shall be studying psalm 150, meaning verse by verse. Psalm 137 1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. The country of Babylon was 1000 that his people must not do this. What is the meaning behind Psalm 137? ("*Evil" means Psalm 137: Continuing one of the more graphic imprecatory prayers, this psalm was written during the Babylonian captivity, or perhaps shortly afterward. 32:35; Prov. 21:24-25; Lev. And there were other inner walls! meant that if someone dug your eye out, you would dig his out. But because of His love and mercy, He purposed to bless us through His plan of salvation. The Jews refused to play their harps in Babylon (v. 2). It contains difficult words. Psalm 137. Psalm 137:1-6 New International Version (NIV) Psalm 137. and send help to his people. means years Before Christ came to the earth. This is what they said in the Day of Jerusalem. v4 We just cannot We should never take de-light in the thought of God’s judging our enemies, because He does not take pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they repent and live (Ezek. There is a desire for God’s glory to be displayed. Jesus will give them help, and stop In 536 B.C. Now he 137) invokes God to bring down judgment or punishment on his enemies. Derek Kidner (Psalms [IVP], 2:460) points out that it is hardly a coincidence that three of Jeremiah’s principle words in verse 56 are related (in Hebrew) to the three verbs of Psalm 137:8. be a help! The abortion industry should anger us and shock us into action. He remembered how the people of Babylon But they had an intense longing for God’s city and God’s worship. 1. When the psalmist cries out for judgment on Babylon, he is appealing to God to carry out His covenant with Abraham so that ultimately all peoples would be blessed. Psalm 137:3. Jewish ~ a word that describes a *Jew or anything to do Jew ~ a person who is born from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob This publication is Many Bible students think that the *psalmist wrote Psalm 138 long after David died. God agreed to love What about women in our country paying doctors to chop up their babies so that they don’t have to be inconvenienced by an unwanted child? Since there are a number of imprecatory psalms, and since these passages have caused many doubts and questions in the hearts of sincere believers, I thought that we should grapple with the … *evil. And so God must judge sin. They took the people that lived there as *prisoners to The *Jews in the *exile met by these rivers. In fact, it was just the opposite. In these psalms, the author (usually David, although not in Ps. The *Jews lived in Judah. In the New Testament, the authority to punish and avenge evil is given to the state (Rom. By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. He was not seeking vengeance or being selfish. children in Babylon. First, I want to try to explain this type of psalm; and then I want to show you some practical lessons which can be drawn from Psalm 137. 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