Chapter 137

Written about the experience of the exiled Jews.  They were sad, and wept about their homeland.  Though sad, their captors made them sing songs from the old days.  Making them sadder still I am sure.

Second section implores them to remember Jerusalem, to keep it first in their hearts.

Then it gets specific.  It is a prayer to God to remember what Edom did to them, "rooting" for the Babylonians to "lay it bare".  And then...it prays that God avenge them on the Babylonians, and bless the one who "takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock".  This is surely the kind of thing that would be said only in the culture of that time.  We have it so much easier today.

2021 - And surely this is a non-defensive prayer, offered by someone other than David.  David was long dead when this was written.  NDP.