Click here to read PSALM 137 in poetic form.
Background
Psalm 137 is in the Deuteronomy Book of the Psalms (Psalms 107-150). These 44 Psalms, like the Book of Deuteronomy in the Old Testament, show God’s Word as the source of salvation, deliverance, and healing. This would be fully carried out in the life of the coming Messiah, the living Word, Jesus Christ. Psalm 137 describes the Psalmist’s great desire to return to Jerusalem, where the promised Messiah would one day accomplish man’s redemption and salvation.
Structure
(Verses 1-4) In Babylon, weeping for Jerusalem
(Verses 5,6) Jerusalem, more than our greatest joy—where Messiah will come
(Verses 7-9) In Babylon, judgment upon those who desired Jerusalem’s destruction
Key Scriptures
Verse 4—“How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” They desired to return to Jerusalem, “the city of the great King” (Psalms 48:2). That is where the promised Messiah would come. Only the Lord and His Messiah were worthy of their singing.
Verse 9—“Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.” The Hebrew reads, “Blessed those who seize your children and scatter them from their strongholds.”
FOR FURTHER STUDY
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