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Psalm 137: Singing the Lord’s Song in Exile

Psalm 137 places us beside the rivers of Babylon, where the captives sit and weep as they remember Zion, their harps hanging silent on the willows while their captors demand songs and mirth. The psalm voices the ache of exile, asking how the Lord’s song can be sung in a strange land, and it binds the heart to Jerusalem with solemn vows of remembrance, lest hand and tongue fail if Zion is not preferred above chief joy. It also calls on the Lord to remember Edom’s cry to raze Jerusalem to its foundations and foretells Babylon’s destruction, blessing those who repay her for what she has done, even in harsh words about the dashing of little ones against stones.

00:00 Psalm 137 Opening
00:04 Exile by Babylon
00:13 Captors Demand a Song
00:28 Vow to Remember Jerusalem
00:40 Call for Justice
00:49 Babylon's Coming Fall

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Psalm 137

By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat down, yea, we

wept, when we remembered Zion.

We hanged our harps upon the
willows in the midst thereof.

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.

How shall we sing the Lord's
song in a strange land?

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let
my right hand forget her cunning.

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue
cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I

prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in
the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it,

rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be
destroyed; happy shall he be, that

rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth
thy little ones against the stones.