On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm—Psalm 137—best known for its opening line, “By the Rivers of Babylon,” a ...

If forgetful be my heart, my greatest art be not thy praise to sing, May mine accursed tongue, dead, moribund as dung, Lie silent as the grave, bound to the throat the Most High Gave ...

Psalm 137 in 12th-century Eadwine Psalter. By Anonymous (Fitzmuseum) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Its nine verses paint a scene of captives mourning “by the rivers of Babylon ...

The other day while reading and praying from my Bible, I came across Psalm 137. I thought for a moment about just how direct God's word can be. God is God, and as the creator of all that is, he has… ...

Psalm 137 – best known for its opening line, 'By the Rivers of Babylon' – is a 2,500-year-old Hebrew psalm that deals with the Jewish exile -remembered each year on Tisha B'av.