When We Remembered Zion
August 4, 2010 by fatherjeff
Filed under The Hiking Priest (Fr. Jeff's Blog)
Today in my prayers, Psalm 137 popped up:
By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down and there we wept
when we remembered Zion.
On the willows there
we hung up our harps.
For there our captors
asked us for songs,
and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying,
‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion!’
Of course, this Psalm was written during the Babylonian captivity, when things were not looking so good for the Israelites. But this week, the name “Zion” has a special meaning for me. Read more
