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Psalm.

chapter 137, verse 6.

Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you. If I do not set Jerusalem

above my highest joy.

Now in order to understand this first we've got to make sure we get the context.

This Psalm, Psalm 137 is a Psalm of lament. It's talking about how when God's people were exiles in Babylon and separated from Jerusalem,

separated from the temple where the glory of God dwelled among his people

separated from the land that God had promised to them that they had dwelled in

for all those years so when they are in this state of separation and sorrow and

longing, the prayer here in Psalm 137 is, God, don't let me forget what joy it was to be in your presence.

Don't let me forget what joy it was to be walking in obedience to you in the land where you had provided because God's people

had disobeyed him and sinned against him. That's why they were driven into exile. And so the

Psalmest is praying here. I let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,

like not even be able to talk if I forget, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy so basically the

Psalmus is saying here in Babylon help me not to get so caught up in all the stuff around me in this foreign land that I

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