Psalm 137 is a lament in Babylon where the Jews wept by the rivers, hung their harps on the trees and refused to sing the psalms of Zion owing to their suffering and longings for home, and faced with the torments of their captors. But God's people vow to never forget Jerusalem saying "May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you... Jerusalem!" The psalm ends asking God for vengeance against the Edomites and against the Babylonians for their cruelty. It is a psalm of expression of profound trauma for God's people having lost home and temple.
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