Choose Your Own Adventure! Starting this Wednesday we will be writing on a predetermined Bible verse or passage. This week we will be writing on Psalm 137:
1By the waters of Babylon,
there we sat down and wept,
when we remembered Zion.
2On the willows there
we hung up our lyres.
3For there our captors
required of us songs,
and our tormentors, mirth, saying,
"Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
4 How shall we sing the LORD’s song
in a foreign land?
5If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
let my right hand forget its skill!
6Let 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!
7Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites
the day of Jerusalem,
how they said, "Lay it bare, lay it bare,
down to its foundations!"
8O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,
blessed shall he be who repays you
with what you have done to us!
9Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rock!
Each of us will be writing something based on this passage and posting on Wednesday. We welcome you considering verse or passage suggestions for next week. We will be collecting suggestions and drawing one from a hat each week. Please feel free to post your own reflections on Psalm 137 in the comments on Wednesday. I am very excited, I don't think many people even know this psalm exists.
Judges 19:22-29
ReplyDeleteDuncan,
ReplyDeleteClearly they must know it exists otherwise there wouldn't be a Psalm 138, but seriously I'm not certain that most Christians are aware of any of the more disturbing biblical passages -- its a form of coping mechanism to prevent the cognitive dissonance that would be triggered by the diametrically opposed “father God” image they hold with the megalomaniacal moral monster we see so often in the OT: Deuteronomy 7, 20:16-17, Numbers 21:4-6 Judges 11:30-34, 1Samuel 15:2-3 to mention a few.
People don’t want to think of their loving Jesus as the same person as the vengeful Yahweh, though the bible clearly indicates they are at least in agreement (1John 5:7). After all if god is love (1John 4:8), and he expresses himself through horrific immoral acts then are believers battered women?
Daniel.