Psalm 137 v1-6 of 9 "By Babel’s streams we sat and wept, when Zion we thought on" To 'O Little Town'
Psalm 137
Scottish Psalter version
"By Babel’s streams we sat and wept, when Zion we thought on"
tune: O Little Town
Falkirk Free Church
The images are only intended to provide resonances with some aspects of the psalm; they are not intended as a one-to-one correspondences. They are more like visual cross-references.
Some interpret the imprecation of verse 9 to include the possibility that being dashed against the Rock might involve salvation alongside the possibility of total destruction.
images:
Histoire Sainte - (Psalm 137)
Harold_Copping - The captives of Babylon
David playing for Saul (1 Samuel 16)
Harold_Copping - (Psalm 137)
PSALM 137 C.M.
1 By Babel’s streams we sat and wept,
when Zion we thought on.
2 In midst thereof we hanged our harps
the willow-trees upon.
3 For there a song requirèd they,
who did us captive bring:
Our spoilers called for mirth, and said,
A song of Zion sing.
4 O how the LORD’s song shall we sing
within a foreign land?
5 If thee, Jerus’lem, I forget,
skill part from my right hand.
6 My tongue to my mouth’s roof let cleave,
if I do thee forget,
Jerusalem, and thee above
my chief joy do not set.
7 Remember Edom’s children, LORD,
who in Jerus’lem’s day,
Ev’n unto its foundätion,
Raze, raze it quite, did say.
8 O daughter thou of Babylon,
near to destrüction;
Bless’d shall he be that thee rewards,
as thou to us hast done.
9 Yea, happy surely shall he be
thy tender little ones
Who shall lay hold upon, and them
shall dash against the stones.
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