Psalm 137

How can there be joy when justice is perverted? If these are the words of the former rulers of Judah the irony could not be greater. When they wear the clothes of slaves the offense is unbearable. When they were the unjust rulers they saw only God's provision. Yet I would think that these are the mourning words of the remnant of faith. Those who were carried into Babylon. The taunts of their captors served only to remind them where they were not. And all the nations who had delivered them into this exile. But in verse 7 their words of faith are building a foundation of hope for this remnant. And this trickle of hope will pour forth like a flood when the door opens for the remnant's children to return to their inheritance. In verse 7 they call out to the LORD. Their hope is not dead.
Stuart