Study
111 From the Book of Psalms is: Psalms 137 and 138
With this study we end, for now, the
study of the book of psalms. Tomorrow, we will start with 2 Chronicles.
Ps.
137. The psalmist expresses the deep feeling of the exiles in Babylon, as the
stinging experience of hostile surroundings and treatment, and the memory of
the cherished city of Jerusalem, now a mass of rubble and ruin, overwhelm them.
1- Ps. 137.
What interest and concern made the captives in Babylon weep rather than sing?
Do you ever feel any similar constraint?
2- Whence does
the writer of Ps. 138 gain the conviction that God is at work in his life?
Examine the details of his confidence. How much of his confession can you make
your own?
3- 137:6, 7.
What place ought we to give in our thought, prayer and preaching to divine
vengeance and just recompense? Cf. Ezk. 25:12-14; Rom. 12:19-21.
