Dashing Your Little Ones Against the Rock

       To most Bible readers, the conclusion of Psalm 137 is troubling.  Here, it is written, “Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom the day of Jerusalem, who said, ‘Raze it, raze it to its very foundation!’  O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed, happy the…

By the Rivers of Babylon

       Psalm 137 was written shortly after the nation of Judah had “become victims of plunder” to all its enemies (2 Kings 21:14).  The Babylonians had been used as Jehovah’s battle axe and weapon of war; they had broken the nation of Judah into…