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Bible study · Psalm 137:1-9

Psalm 137: By the rivers of Babylon

Read Psalm 137:1-9 before you meet.

In a few lines

Psalm 137 turns on remember: the captives remembered Zion and wept (137:1), the psalmist vows to remember Jerusalem above his chief joy (137:6), and he asks the LORD to remember what Edom said (137:7). And the song he was asked for as "one of the songs of Zion" (137:3), he calls "the LORD’s song" (137:4).

The verse to carry

“How can we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?”

Psalm 137:4

To talk about

  1. 1. "How can we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?" (137:4). When has it been hardest for you to sing or pray, and what did you do?

  2. 2. The psalmist vows to remember Jerusalem "above my chief joy" (137:6). What do you most want to keep remembering, even when everything around you pulls the other way?

  3. 3. This one short psalm holds tears (137:1), a question (137:4), a vow to remember Jerusalem (137:5-6), and hard words against Edom and Babylon (137:7-9). Which part of it stays with you most, and why?

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