
Praying Through: Psalm 137
The Psalm
Psalm 137 (CSB)
1 By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion.2 There we hung up our lyres on the poplar trees,
3 for our captors there asked us for songs, and our tormentors, for rejoicing: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
4 How can we sing the LORD’s song on foreign soil?
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.
6 May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!
7 Remember, LORD, what the Edomites said that day at Jerusalem: “Destroy it! Destroy it down to its foundations!”
8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who pays you back what you have done to us.
9 Happy is he who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rocks.
The Prayer
Lord, I know
- that we are strangers in this world,
- exiles
- aliens
- and immigrants
- we are not of this world
- but we live in this world.
We point all creatures
- to raise there eyes
- and see your Son
- Jesus Christ
- and believe
- and bring us all the way home.
We are here just for a little while.
You are our home, sustainer and portion.
Amen.