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Psalms 137: 9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.Do you believe in the Tennents of Bhudism?
I don't know what they are, but I have a feeling they deal with being a good person. Just like tenets of all religions. My concern is that there are no moral tenets to atheism. How does one teach a child right from wrong?
Many of the psalms rehearse episodes of Israels history, especially the story of Israels exodus from Egypt and its arrival in the promised land. Psalm 137 is a beautiful lament of the early days of Israels captivity in Babylon. The poem opens with the image of the Israelites weeping by the banks of the Babylonian rivers, longing for Jerusalem, or Zion. When their captors ask the Israelites to sing for them, the Israelites refuse, hanging their harps on the branches of the willow trees. The poet asks, How could we sing the Lords / song / in a foreign land? (137:4). The poem ends with a call for vengeance on the Babylonians. It acts as an earnest reminder both to the exiled Israelites and to later biblical readers of the importance of the promised land for the celebration of the Jewish faith.