Teks -- Psalms 137:7 (NET)

137:7 Remember, O Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. They said, “Tear it down, tear it down, right to its very foundation!”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Psa 137:7 - The day

In the time of its destruction.

JFB: Psa 137:7-9 - Remember . . . the children of Edom

(Compare Psa 132:1), that is, to punish.

JFB: Psa 137:7-9 - the day of Jerusalem

Its downfall (Lam 4:21-22; Oba 1:11-13).

Clarke: Psa 137:7 - Remember - the children of Edom

Remember - the children of Edom - It appears from Jer 12:6; Jer 25:14; Lam 4:21, Lam 4:22; Eze 25:12; Oba 1:11-14; that the Idumeans joined the army of Nebuchadnezzar against their brethren the Jews; and that they were main instruments in rasing the walls of Jerusalem even to the ground.

Calvin: Psa 137:7 - Remember, O Jehovah! the children of Edom

7.Remember, O Jehovah! the children of Edom Vengeance was to be executed upon the other neighboring nations which had conspired to destroy Jerusalem, so that they are all doubtless included here under the children of Edom, who are specified, a parr, for the whole, either because they showed more hatred and cruelty than the rest, or that theirs were not so easily borne, considering that they were brethren, and of one blood, being the posterity of Esau, and that the Israelites had, by God’s commandment, spared the Edomites, when they devoted all beside them to destruction. (Deu 2:4.) It was, therefore, the height of cruelty in them to invite the Babylonians to destroy their own brethren, or fan the flames of their hostility. We are to notice, however, that the Psalmist does not break forth into these awful denunciations unadvisedly, but as God’s herald, to confirm former prophecies. God both by Ezekiel and Jeremiah had predicted that he would punish the Edomites, (Eze 25:13; Jer 49:7; and Lam 4:21) and Obadiah distinctly gives the reason, answerable to what is here stated — that they had conspired with the Babylonians. (Oba 1:11.) We know that God intended in this way to comfort and support the minds of the people under a calamity so very distressing, as that Jacob’s election might have seemed to be rendered frustrate, should his descendants be treated with impunity in such a barbarous manner, by the posterity of Esau. The Psalmist prays, under the inspiration of the Spirit, that God would practically demonstrate the truth of this prediction. Anti when he says, Remember, O Jehovah! he would remind God’s people of the promise to strengthen their belief in his avenging justice, and make them wait for the event with patience and submission. To pray for vengeance would have been unwarrantable, had not God pro-raised it, and had the party against whom it was sought not been reprobate and incurable; for as to others, even our greatest enemies, we should wish their amendment and reformation. The day of Jerusalem,, is a title given by him, and of frequent occurrence in Scripture, to the time of visitation, which had a divinely appointed and definite term.

TSK: Psa 137:7 - Remember // the children // Raze it

Remember : Psa 74:18, Psa 79:8-12; Exo 17:14; 1Sa 15:2; Hos 7:2

the children : Isa 63:1-6; Jer. 49:7-22; Lam 4:21, Lam 4:22; Eze 25:12-14; Oba 1:10-14, Oba 1:18-21

Raze it : Heb. make bare

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Psa 137:7 - Remember, O Lord // the children of Edom // In the day // Who said

Remember, O Lord so as to punish them,

the children of Edom our constant and inveterate enemies, who had no regard either to consanguinity or humanity.

In the day in the time of its calamity or destruction, which is oft called a day, as Job 18:20 Psa 37:13 Eze 30:9 Hos 1:11 Ob 12 .

Who said to the Babylonians, whom they assisted and provoked against Jerusalem; of which see Lam 4:21 Eze 25:12 Ob 11-14 .

Haydock: Psa 137:7 - Wilt quicken me // Wrath

Wilt quicken me. And not otherwise. (St. Augustine) ---

There is no going to heaven without crosses. (Haydock) ---

Wrath. Most furious and cruel enemies. (Calmet)

Gill: Psa 137:7 - Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem // who said, rase it, rase it even to the foundation thereof

Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem,.... Of her visitation, calamity, and destruction, how they behaved then, and them for it; who, though the children of Esau and brethren of the Jews, as well as their neighbours, yet hated them; the old grudge of their father, because of the birthright and blessing, as well as the old enmity of the serpent, continuing in them; and who rejoiced at their ruin, helped forward their affliction, and were assistants to the Babylonians in the plunder and destruction of them, Oba 1:11. The Targum is,

"Michael, the prince of Jerusalem, said, remember, O Lord, the people of Edom who destroyed Jerusalem.''

Many Jewish writers, as Aben Ezra observes, interpret this of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans:

who said, rase it, rase it even to the foundation thereof: or "make it naked" or "bare ⁱ to the foundation"; pull down its walls, lay them level with the ground; root up the very foundation of them, and let nothing be left or seen but the bare naked ground; so spiteful and malicious were they.