kjv@Psalms:137:1@ By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
kjv@Psalms:137:2@ We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
kjv@Psalms: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.
kjv@Psalms:137:4@ How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
kjv@Psalms:137:5@ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
kjv@Psalms: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.
kjv@Psalms: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.
kjv@Psalms:137:8@ O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
kjv@Psalms:137:9@ Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
It must be humbling when ones captors request to hear one of your hymns as if to rub your face in the fact that they are taking you back to their land to make you slaves. It drives home the fact that you've let a good thing go. Had they listened to God, had they returned their hearts from their false gods, had they obeyed it may not have come to this. But it has, and there naturally is bitterness towards these captors. Really though God's mercy from kjv@Psalms:123 is still at work in a reproving fashion. We should not be so hardened as to allow it to come to this.
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