Psalm 137

“How can we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?” (v4). Far from home, these Jews “sat down and wept” by the rivers of Babylon. They mourned all that they had lost, and they cursed their captors (v7-9). Anyone who has lost something precious – home or family or job – can sympathize with their grief and anger. But God did not forget them in Babylon. He was working through Daniel and his friends, and through memories of Jerusalem, and through His Word.

Sadness doesn’t have to become bitterness. In “a foreign land,” God is still present and at work.