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Picture of Longing and Psalm 137
Psalm 137 reads as follows from the King James version of the Bible:
[1] By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
[2] We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
[3] 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.
[4] How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?
[5] If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
[6] 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.
[7] Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
[8] O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
[9] Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the ston
This is a psalm of sorrow, but also a warning in the particular harshness of the last verse.
The group was in exile and it seems they were somewhat marked as well as physically separated from their place of worship.
The psalm is similar to the Song of Solomon, where there is a separation from the beloved, and there is the resultant longing and sorrow
It does appear they were still in lush surroundings, the willows by the rivers of Babylon wasn’t exactly prison like settings, but there was rooted bitterness of the violation of the private and internally generated relationship with the Lord, expressed most vividly in song.
This speaks of the sensitive relationship with the Lord conducted in freedom without any outside interference.
In this psalm the captors seem to be more trying to intrude and have intruded or stolen from this relationship.
However, there is no specific wording that they have taken it to the level of violence although the threat of it was probably there.
There is the element of forced, which can contain the threat of violence behind it.
What this psalm really points out is two major things.
One is the sensitive nature of the relationship with the Lord and also with others.
These songs were freely turned towards the Lord.
For a time and a place and the intruders or captors were direct in their invasion of that arena.
Maybe the music was beautiful and beautiful to listen to listen to for the captors, but it wasn’t meant for them.
They might have sincerely wanted to listen to the beautiful songs in the beautiful settings.
The captured were still in a place of apparent utmost beauty, and still had possessions of their harp and musical ability’s, but still felt torn away from their love.
It is dangerous territory to traverse, resulting in the hot coals of retribution in the here and now, and an earlier rather than a later judgment.
The second point here is the positioning of who had come into this relationship uninvited.
The last verse represents a rather harsh retribution.
This psalm really puts on the warning lights for others that are in any way oppressing that sensitive relationship with the Lord.
It appears that the anger of the Lord for this behavior might rise up rather quickly, and this is one place where a real fear of the Lord should arise.
Anybody could be subject to this kind of violation, although the shades may have variations,
Stepping on the toes of one of the servants of the Lord is particularly unwise.
The last verse includes a reprisal that will be sudden, inescapable and complete.
Unseen angels follow these worshipers.
Mighty principalities are offended.
It is one thing to err for yourself, but it is another thing to conduct a direct affront in any way upon the intimate relationship of the stationed believer of the Lord.
This psalm in particular points to the sensitivity of all loving relationships, in particular the relationship with the Lord and the dangers of intruders who violate into loving relationships especially the relationship with the Lord.
Then this psalm gives a picture of longing which echoes the great Song of Solomon in the grandeur and depths of longing that can be there. The capacity for longing is itself a great gift and mired in the very soul of a person.
The divinely imbued capacity of longing is something not to be ignored but worked with and understood in its channels, waterways and powers that ultimately are a big part of things
The absence accentuates the picture of longing.
Song of Solomon Chapter 5 verse 6:
6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
Psalm 119 verse 174 says:
“ I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.”
The longing for something, in this case salvation, is evidence of its actual existence and the true hopes for it as a real possibility.
The Lord isn’t going to impart longing for something that doesn’t exist or could never come to fruition.
The things people long for are more so rather close by. Most people don’t long for the idea of walking on Mars,because they know they will never get to do this.
The Longing for Eden may have been there, even while you were in Eden, but once there and once separated the picture of longing becomes a fuller and bigger picture.
The question is to what extent is the longing there, even if you have never been there or just had a fleeting glance of what could have been?
There may or may not have been less of a longing for those depicted in this psalm if they had never been to Jerusalem and have never played for the Lord. The longing might still have been their in the depths of their being.
But the case presented here is that they had experienced first hand the situation of being there and being in the presence of the Lord and it seems that the enforced separation from this brought these longings to greater heights, maybe greater heights than would be there is they otherwise had never experienced this first hand.
But even hearing of it, hearing of others experiences of it, knowing about it, and having the ability to contemplate it can bring about a longing for indeed what never was.
In the case of those in this psalm it had been and was, so the longing for it was probably a deep crevasse in the soul than it otherwise would have been but this is only speculative, that gap could have been just as large for those who had never been and never experienced.
Hopes might be brushed aside as a matter of expediency, but that doesn’t mean the longing still isn’t there to a degree.
I may not have the means to get to Hawaii, either the time off or the travel expenses, but that doesn’t mean I don’t long to be there in person after seeing the beautiful scenery in the television show Lost.
I may not get a chance to see this group in concert, but that doesn’t mean that I still don’t long to after hearing their tunes on the radio.
Another aspect of this that just makes the longing even more is if you are gifted in a way that could bring you to that certain place.
I am less likely to long to be on the center stage singing if I don’t have all that great of a singing voice.
I will be less likely to long to be in the NBA if I can’t shoot a basketball that well.
But here those in this psalm had great gifts for song in worshiping in the presence of the Lord and it hurt all the more to have the gifts and not being able to bring them to
Sometimes with extra special gifts go extra special longings
The woman in the Song of Solomon was separated from her lover in the night and searched the city for him.
In her case, she knew him and that may have accentuated the longing that if he had only been a hoped for love who she hadn’t dealt with.
But it also was her own gifts for loving that factored into her longing. Just like in this psalm, it was these gifts of song that also factored in to the longing.
It would have been that even if they didn’t play the instruments and didn’t sing with great voices, that there still would have been a place of longing to be in Jerusalem but it was all the more there when they were reminded of these gifts by the captors and how now these great gifts were being misplaced and mislaid
There is a lot to think about with this psalm about fulfillment, about guidance to the places of longing that will result in the fulfillment of that longing and the proper sightings and possible utilizations of the great gifts that call for fulfillment or otherwise do result in a strong longing for their fulfillment
Song of Solomon Chapter 8 verse 7:
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
The fires of love must burn brightly.
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