S3:223 Psalm 137
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Dashing the little ones against the rock? In Psalm 137, the Israelites are mourning their loss and the consequences they are facing due to sin. Emma Dotter and Lauren Atkinson explore this passage and discuss worshipping God in a foreign land and God’s divine judgment.
Additional Scripture Referenced:
Romans 12:19, “Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.’”
Deuteronomy 27-28, Blessings and Curses for Disobedience
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| 0:00.0 | All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests. |
| 0:04.5 | You're listening to Join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter. |
| 0:09.8 | Thanks for joining. |
| 0:11.0 | Today, we are reading Psalm 137, and I am back in the podcast studio with Lauren Atkinson. |
| 0:16.5 | Hey, hey. |
| 0:17.5 | Lauren, it's so fun to be back with you. |
| 0:19.3 | For sure. |
| 0:20.3 | I think we'd need to just jump right in. I think we should. It's so fun to be back with you. For sure. I think we'd need to just jump right in. |
| 0:22.1 | I think we should. It's a more serious Psalm. It is. Psalm 137. So I'm going to let you start us off by talking about the key verse. |
| 0:29.5 | Psalm 137 is a Psalm of exile. It has both lament and hope. And the key verse is verse 4. It says, how shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign |
| 0:40.6 | land? And as you read this Psalm, you've probably noticed the heavy and weightiness that it has. And so to |
| 0:46.8 | understand why that is historical context here is really important. When this Psalm was written, |
| 0:52.5 | Judah had been conquered by King Nebuchadnezzar |
| 0:54.8 | in Babylon around 586 BC. The city was destroyed, the temple was demolished, and many of the |
| 1:01.6 | best and brightest of the citizens of Israel had been taken into captivity and brought back to Babylon |
| 1:07.8 | in exile. And most of those who were taken into exile |
| 1:11.6 | would never see their home again. |
| 1:13.9 | It's safe to say that there was much despair. |
| 1:16.9 | What this psalm shows for us is that mourning and grief |
| 1:20.6 | is appropriate when we experience loss. |
| 1:23.8 | The psalmist says in verse one, |
| 1:25.2 | by the waters of Babylon, we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion, their homeland. |
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