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Psalm 137
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| 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we
remembered Zion. |
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| 137:2
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. |
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| 137:3
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. |
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| 137:4
How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land? |
 (137:5-6)
"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."
 (137:8-9) God will send people to smash little Babylonian children against stones to punish the Babylonians for enslaving
the Israelites during the Babylonian captivity. These happy
("blessed" in the ESV)
children smashers are God's instruments for carrying out his vengeance.
(137:8) "Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that
rewardeth thee."
(137:9) "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones."
What the Bible says about children and
family values
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| 137:5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
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| 137:6 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.
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| 137:7
Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said,
Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
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| 137:8
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that
rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
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| 137:9
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
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