Let my atongue cling to the roof of my mouth—
If I do not exalt Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.
The day of Jerusalem,
Who said,1 “Raze it, raze it,
To its very foundation!”
Happy the one bwho repays you as you have served us!
Your little ones against the rock!
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Psalms 137:7.
Psalm 137:1-9
Not a very happy thing to end this song with. But that is the imprecation. The imprecations are in verses 8 and 9, and verse 8 actually is the reason for—or explains; that is probably better—explains what is happening in verse 9. Now notice verse 8: "Happy shall he be who repays you for what you have served us!" So what does this say?
Verse 9 is what they did to the Jewish babies, and the Jews are saying, 'Watch out. You're going to be destroyed, and your babies are going to be dashed against the rock. And the people who do that—who come to destroy your nation—will be rejoicing when they do it." Pretty brutal, is it not? Pretty gruesome. What they are saying here at the end of this Psalm is: "Watch out, Edom. What goes around comes around. These things balance out. You're not going to stay on top of the nations for long because there is going to come somebody stronger than you who will come after you and treat you the exact same way that you treated nations like Judah. Your time is coming. You're going to receive the same sort of treatment, and in that way we will be avenged."
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