A Nation Taken Captive in Mourning
(January 20, 2021)
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. (Psalm 137:1)
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. (Psalm 137:2)
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. (Psalm 137:3)
How shall we sing the LORD’S song in a strange land? (Psalm 137:4)
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. (Psalm 137:5)
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. (Psalm 137:6)
Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. (Psalm 137:7)
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. (Psalm 137:8)
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. (Psalm 137:9)
In Psalm 137, through these 9 verses, we see the finality of man in his distress. However, his distress came by his own sin against the Almighty God. So the nations that we once knew have passed into the darkness and will be known no more. Democracy was a great experiment, but it failed because it relied upon man and not the Almighty God. We are now a broken nation mired down in an ungodly system, and as we sit by the rivers of Babylon we do pray this prayer: Even so, come, Lord Jesus.