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ANOTHER IMPRECATORY PSALM
FRIDAY, JUNE 14
Psalm 137:1-9
Romans 1:21-24
God is omniscient.
ANOTHER IMPRECATORY PSALM
To know the word “imprecatory,” turn back to the reading on Psalm 109. This is another such Psalm.
Israel as a nation had many enemies. Though God used the Assyrians to punish Samaria, He will in turn punish the Assyrians whose immediate motives were to rob a weaker people.
God also used Nebuchadnezzar to punish Judah but they did not know God was using them as His instrument. Their immediate motives were like the Assyrians to rob a weaker people. Therefore both Assyrians and Babylonians came under God’s judgment at the end.
As the Jews had suffered terribly under the iron heel of the Babylonians, they had no one to turn to for justice but God Almighty. They had also another enemy, Edom (Esau) their own brother who mercilessly killed them.
So they prayed this, another imprecatory prayer.
“Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones” (Ps 137:7-9).
Can they cry out to God for justice? The answer is yours, dear reader!
THOUGHT: God is Judge of the nations.
PRAYER: Father, I turn to Thee for justice against those that eat me up.