The Belt of Truth: Psalm 137

Psalm 137 is one of the imprecatory psalms. Or a psalm that prays against the enemies. 

The image is of God’s people who have seen their homeland destroyed, their loved ones killed and who still have their captors and tormentors mocking them to sing songs of happiness. 

It is a bitter psalm. The prayer then turns into a longing for home again and to not forget their home in a foreign land. 

And finally for the Edomites and Babylonians to be repaid in kind for what they did. 

We see in this psalm that no emotion and feeling is to be left out before God and that we dare not try to wax piety and facades before God. 

Neither do we take vengeance into our own hands but rather leave it up to God who has taken out wrath upon his Son. For us all, that is enough and we can indeed pray for our enemies as our Lord now instructs.