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Bible Baptist Church

Bradenton, Florida

John Barch

Psalms Week 14

Psalm 137                      An Imprecatory Psalm 
•         Imprecatory Means To Curse
•         Prayers for God to Avenge the Persecuted
•         How Do We Reconcile This With the NT?
•         Historical Background
•         They Reflect God’s Own Character; Justice
•         They Reflect the Prophetic Nature of the Psalms
•         The rivers of Babylon-Man-Made Canals Between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
•         We wept, when we remembered Zion-Grief Over Their Homeland and Life
•         Harps-Citherns
•         Hanged-Rather Than Use Them to Profane Their Songs to Idols
•         For there-At the Canal Side
•         They that carried us away captive-The Oppressors-The Babylonians
•         Required of us-Demanded Roughly and Rudely
•         A song-The Lord’s Song
•         Required of us mirth- A Joyous Song
•         Sing us one of the songs of Zion-A Psalm
•         Mock Their Worship and Ridicule Jehovah
•         How shall we sing?-Denial is Humbly Put in the Form of a Question
•         If I –Every Man Has to Pledge This For Himself
•         O Jerusalem-Their Life Was Connected With Worship
•         Let my right hand forget-Imprecation; A Vow or Curse Upon Themselves
•         Cunning-Dexterity in Playing as a Musician
•         Let my-Vow or Curse of the Singers
•         Tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth-So That It is Inoperable
•         These Are Self Judgments & Self Imposed Vows (Ps 66:13)
•         The Babylonian Guards Were Taunting the Jewish Exiles
•         This Was Not a Personal Attack, But An Issue Between Two Nations
•         The Law God Gave to Israel Is Based on Retaliation (Deut 19:16-21)
•         Although Babylon Was God’s Chosen Instrument to Discipline the Jews
•         They Went Too Far & Treated the Jews with Brutality (Is 47:1-7; 51:22-23)
•         Jerusalem Had Fallen to the Babylonians in 587 BC; Called Here the day of Jerusalem 
•         Who Were the Edomites?
•         Esau, Father of the Edomites, was Jacob’s Brother (Gen 25:30)
•         Esau Promised to Prevent God’s Plan by Murdering Jacob (Gen 27:41)
•         Remember, O LORD-Edom’s Assault Was Not Aimed At Man, But Against God
•         The Psalmist Knew From the Prophets That God Would Judge Edom and Babylon
•         He Prayed to the Lord to Keep His Promises (Jer 51:56; Rom 12:19)
•         Rase it…even to the foundation thereof-Lay Bare; Defenseless; Removing the Contents
•         Jerusalem’s Foundations, However, Were God’s Foundations
•         Daughter-Capital City the Daughter of an Empire
•         To be destroyed-The Psalmist Knew Babylon to Be Already Destroyed
•         Happy-Set Right
•         This Must Be Viewed As A Prophecy
•         Fulfilled Through the Medes & Cyrus 

 

Published Feb 24 2008, 02:02 PM by jbarch

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