旧约 - 诗篇(Psalms)第137章

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
There on the poplars we hung our harps,
for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.
Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. "Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundations!"
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us--
he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
诗篇第一百卅七篇   第 137 篇 

  诗 137:7> “兄弟亲,打断骨头连着筋”,可以东人却── 

  137:7 以东人同以色列人有亲缘关系,他们的祖宗是以扫,是亚伯拉罕的后代。尽管以色列人同以东在南部有共同的边界,但两个民族却彼此仇视。以东人在耶路撒冷被巴比伦军队占领的时候并没有出手相助。事实上他们反在圣城被毁的时候幸灾乐祸(参耶 49:7-22 ;珥 3:19 ;俄 1-20 节)。 

  诗 137:8-9> 摔死婴孩,太残忍了吧…… 

  137:8-9 巴比伦傲慢地攻击了神和神的国,因此神毁灭了巴比伦及其百姓。玛代人和波斯人在公元前 539 年毁灭了巴比伦。许多受压迫的人都活着看见了胜利。诗人在向神呼求审判,所以这里对婴儿的词句很残酷, " 就像你待我们的那样报复你。 " ──《灵修版圣经注释》