Comments on: Psalms 137: Dash the Babies? http://biblearchive.com/blog/2008/study/psalms-137-dash-the-babies/ Thoughts from Plymouth Brethren Blogger Rey Reynoso Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:00:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: The Bible Archive » Blog Archive » Easy To Hate http://biblearchive.com/blog/2008/study/psalms-137-dash-the-babies/comment-page-1/#comment-1074 The Bible Archive » Blog Archive » Easy To Hate Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:10:21 +0000 http://biblearchive.com/blog/2008/01/07/psalms-137-dash-the-babies/#comment-1074 [...] my heart, my actions. And then he tells us to come to Him and confess these things to him. Heck, reading through the Psalms shows that not only does God hear us when we confess these things; He expects us to be totally open [...] [...] my heart, my actions. And then he tells us to come to Him and confess these things to him. Heck, reading through the Psalms shows that not only does God hear us when we confess these things; He expects us to be totally open [...]

]]> By: rey http://biblearchive.com/blog/2008/study/psalms-137-dash-the-babies/comment-page-1/#comment-174 rey Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:36:37 +0000 http://biblearchive.com/blog/2008/01/07/psalms-137-dash-the-babies/#comment-174 I can just about see how that would go since the entire Psalm builds up on that desire for justice. Lewis nice point in his book on the Psalms: "I suppose most of us make our own moral allegories...We know the proper object of utter hostility--wickedness, especially our own. Thus in 36, 'My heart sheweth me the wickedness of the ungodly,' each can reflect that his own heart is the specimen of that wickedness best known to him. After that, the upward plunge at verse 5 into mercy high as heaven and the righteousness solid as the mountain takes even more force and beauty." does take on a, I think, deeper level when its not merely allegorical but looking at it all from the redemptive historical point of view culminating in Christ. I can just about see how that would go since the entire Psalm builds up on that desire for justice.

Lewis nice point in his book on the Psalms: “I suppose most of us make our own moral allegories…We know the proper object of utter hostility–wickedness, especially our own. Thus in 36, ‘My heart sheweth me the wickedness of the ungodly,’ each can reflect that his own heart is the specimen of that wickedness best known to him. After that, the upward plunge at verse 5 into mercy high as heaven and the righteousness solid as the mountain takes even more force and beauty.” does take on a, I think, deeper level when its not merely allegorical but looking at it all from the redemptive historical point of view culminating in Christ.

]]> By: Jeremy Pierce http://biblearchive.com/blog/2008/study/psalms-137-dash-the-babies/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Jeremy Pierce Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:32:22 +0000 http://biblearchive.com/blog/2008/01/07/psalms-137-dash-the-babies/#comment-173 We read a psalm every week, in order, during our public worship on Sundays. People usually begin with the weekly psalm for their communion meditations, and one week I was assigned Psalm 137. The easy thing would be the break the usual tendency to begin with the psalm, but I didn't want to do that. I had to think hard about the connection between the desire for justice in the psalm and justice being served on the cross against our sin in Jesus, who was in a sense bashed against the rocks for us. It was an unusual communion meditation, but it was anything but artificial. Once I started thinking about the connections, it flowed pretty naturally. We read a psalm every week, in order, during our public worship on Sundays. People usually begin with the weekly psalm for their communion meditations, and one week I was assigned Psalm 137. The easy thing would be the break the usual tendency to begin with the psalm, but I didn’t want to do that. I had to think hard about the connection between the desire for justice in the psalm and justice being served on the cross against our sin in Jesus, who was in a sense bashed against the rocks for us. It was an unusual communion meditation, but it was anything but artificial. Once I started thinking about the connections, it flowed pretty naturally.

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