Psalms 137:7 meaning and explanation
Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
Psalms 137:7, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is a Judean exile in Babylon praying about Jerusalem's fall in 586 BC. Edom was a neighboring people descended from Jacob's brother Esau, and prophets such as Obadiah charged them with gloating and aiding the invaders while the city was destroyed.
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