October 17, 2025

Through My Bible Yr 02 – October 17

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Through My Bible Yr 02 – October 17Psalm 137 – 138

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Through My Bible – October 17

Psalm 137 – 138 (EHV)

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Psalm 137

Beside the Rivers of Babylon

Sorrow for Jerusalem

1 Beside the rivers [1] of Babylon,

there we sat, and, yes, we wept as we remembered Zion.

2 There we hung up our lyres on the willows,

3 because there our captors asked us for words of a song,

and our tormentors asked for a happy song:

“Sing for us one of the songs of Zion!”

Zeal for Zion

4 How can we sing a song of the Lord on foreign soil?

5 If I forget you, Jerusalem,

may my right hand forget how to play music. [2]

6 May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth

if I do not remember you,

if I do not exalt Jerusalem above my highest joy.

Zeal for God’s Vengeance

7 Remember the day of Jerusalem, O Lord,

against the descendants of Edom [3] who said,

“Tear it down, tear it down to its foundations!”

8 Daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,

how blessed is the one who repays you

with the same deeds you did against us.

9 How blessed is the one who seizes your children

and dashes them against the cliff.

Psalm 138

May the Kings Praise You

Heading

By David.

Thanks From a Grateful Heart

1 I will thank you with all my heart.

Before the gods [4] I will make music for you.

2 I will bow down toward your holy temple.

I will give thanks to your name

because of your mercy and because of your truth.

Yes, you made your word even greater than your name. [5]

3 By day I called, and you answered me.

You have made my soul strong.

4 All the kings of the earth will thank you, Lord,

when they have heard the message from your mouth.

5 Then they will sing about the ways of the Lord,

because the glory of the Lord is great.

6 Indeed the Lord is exalted, but he sees the lowly,

and he recognizes the proud from a distance.

7 If I walk surrounded by danger, you keep me alive

in spite of the anger of my enemies.

You stretch out your hand.

You save me with your right hand.

8 The Lord will fulfill his purpose [6] for me.

Lord, your mercy endures forever.

Do not let go of the works [7] of your hands.

Footnotes

Psalm 137:1 Many of the rivers were in fact canals running off the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

Psalm 137:5 The words how to play music are supplied to clarify the point of reference.

Psalm 137:7 This wording recalls the hostility between Jacob (called Israel) and Esau (called Edom).

Psalm 138:1 Gods here may refer to angels, though that use of the term is rare. The point may simply be a declaration of God’s superiority to the pagan gods, who are only demons.

Psalm 138:2 Literally for you have made great over all your name your saying or, with a different reading of the Hebrew, you made your word higher than the heavens

Psalm 138:8 Or complete his plans

Psalm 138:8 Hebrew variant work

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