Psalm 137

Then a bear mauls 42 of them.

Psalms 137, verse 9, blesses those who dash Babylonian babies against rocks.

Or Judges 11, verses 30 through 39, Jephthah sacrifices his daughter as a burnt offering after a vow.

Exodus 22, verses 1-2, God tests Abraham by commanding him to sacrifice his own son, Isaac.

Oh, and remember in the Septuagint, the numbering of the Psalms is all messed up.

So actually in the Septuagint, It's actually Psalm 137 one.

It's not Psalm 138.

So if you look up to Septuagint, don't say, you don't know what you're talking about.

Look at Psalm 137.

And I think the one translation I have reads this way.

I will give thee thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart, and I will sing praises to thee before the angels.

What do you say about that, Vinny? If we want to play this game.

Look, Psalms 137.

I can't even repeat this, man.

Because they're doing it over there.

On our text, Dime.

Where it says, Happy be he that dashes the what? It's talking about Look at it, Psalms 137, what it's talking about children here, man, kids.

Deuteronomy 20, 16, 17 commands that nothing left that breathes to stay alive.

Deuteronomy 13, 6-10 commands putting to unaliving your close family members who encourage you to worship another God.

And, of course, religious observance, history, collective memory, and even the history books, they recount all of these as historical fact.

Now, consider the book of Psalms, Psalms 137, verses 5 through 6, where the psalmist expresses his determination never to forget Jerusalem.

Jerusalem prayers and traditions maintain that attachment even when Jewish communities live thousands of miles away from their ancestral homeland, wherever they were scattered across the earth.

the Jewish lineage still remain intact.

David was a man who was skillful.

Now, let's look at Psalm 137 verse 5. psalm 137 verse 5 he said if i forget you oh jerusalem let my right right hand forget its skill look at that if i forget you debbie was so diligent he was so diligent he was always doing something for god do you know that when the ark of god was taken away from jerusalem it was david that brought it back Saul did not do anything.

Saul reigned for almost 40 years and Saul did not do anything to bring back the ark.

It was when David became king in 2 Samuel chapter 6 that David said, how can the ark of God be outside and I will be living in a house? He brought back the ark and not only that, he told God, he said, God, I want to build you a house.

to the land of Babylon.

I like always to recite these verses from Psalm 137.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and we wept when we remember Zion.

There they that took us captive told us and asked us and told us, sing unto us one of Zion's songs.

They hung their harps upon a willow.

We sat down and we wept when we remember.

Read one time Psalm 137 and you will see.

They were mocking the Jewish people in Babylon.