How Shall We Sing the Lord's Song?
By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our lyres. For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
How shall we sing the Lord's
song in a foreign land? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget
its skill!
Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do
not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!
Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said,
“Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!”
O daughter of Babylon, doomed
to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to
us!
Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the
rock!
Hope
rises and stirs us up, we gain confidence as we remember our Fathers work in
our lives. They captors may have been mocking but the songs reminded the
children of who their Father and King is and what He is capable of.
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