“Truth for Truckers” *June 17, 2014* Psalm 137 “Tears
in Exile”
This Psalm
paints a sad picture of the Jews when they were taken captive to Babylon in 586
B.C. Their Temple was destroyed, Jerusalem itself was also devastated and the
people were taken into a strange land: “How
shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?” (v.4). This statement was
given after their captors ‘Required of us
a song”. They were already in tears when they remembered Zion and had “Hanged their harps upon the willows in the
midst thereof.” (v.1, 2)
Evidently the children of Edom encouraged
the Babylonians to destroy Jerusalem when they said “Rase it, rase it even to the foundation thereof.” (v.7). But, the
Jewish captives looked forward to “The
day of Jerusalem” when the Lord would rebuild the city and they would
return to their land after seventy years of captivity which was prophesied in
the book of Jeremiah.
They also encouraged themselves in the
fact that Babylon would be destroyed: “O
Daughter of Babylon who art to be destroyed” (v.8) So, Drivers, when all
looks dark and sadness overwhelms us we can look forward to the promises of God
and encourage ourselves in the Lord our God! “For greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.” (I John
4:4)
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