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who said, Rase <i>it</i>, rase <i>it, even</i> to the foundation thereof.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/psalms/137.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, “Raze <i>it,</i> raze <i>it,</i> To its very foundation!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/psalms/137.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Remember, LORD, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Those who said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare To its foundation!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/psalms/137.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, &#8220Raze it, raze it To its very foundation.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/psalms/137.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, “Raze it, raze it, To its very foundation.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/psalms/137.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, “Tear it down! Tear it down To its very foundation.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/psalms/137.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom, The day of [the fall of] Jerusalem, Who said “Down, down [with her] To her very foundation.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/psalms/137.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Remember, LORD, what the Edomites said that day at Jerusalem: “Destroy it! Destroy it down to its foundations! ”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/137.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Remember, LORD, what the Edomites said that day at Jerusalem:&#8221 Destroy it! Destroy it down to its foundations!&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/psalms/137.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Remember, O Jehovah, against the children of Edom The day of Jerusalem; Who said, Rase it, rase it, Even to the foundation thereof.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/psalms/137.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Our LORD, punish the Edomites! On the day Jerusalem fell, they shouted, "Completely destroy the city! Tear down every building!" <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/psalms/137.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/psalms/137.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />O LORD, remember the people of Edom. Remember what they did the day Jerusalem [was captured]. They said, "Tear it down! Tear it down to its foundation."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/psalms/137.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did the day Jerusalem was captured. Remember how they kept saying, "Tear it down to the ground!" <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/psalms/137.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Remember the day of Jerusalem's fall, LORD, because of the Edomites, who kept saying, "Tear it down! Tear it right down to its foundations!"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/psalms/137.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: ?Destroy it,? they said, ?tear it down to its foundations!?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/psalms/137.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />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!" <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/psalms/137.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Remember, LORD, against the descendants of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, "Raze it. Raze it even to its foundation."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/psalms/137.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to its foundation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/psalms/137.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!” <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/psalms/137.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Remember, YHWH, for the sons of Edom, "" The day of Jerusalem, "" Those saying, “Raze, raze to its foundation!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/psalms/137.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Remember, Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, The day of Jerusalem, Those saying, 'Rase, rase to its foundation!'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/psalms/137.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Remember, O Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; they saying, Make bare, make bare, even to the foundations in her.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/psalms/137.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/psalms/137.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br /><V 136:7>O Lord, call to mind the sons of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem, who say: “Despoil it, despoil it, even to its foundation.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/psalms/137.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Remember, LORD, against Edom that day at Jerusalem. They said: “Level it, level it down to its foundations!” <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/psalms/137.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem’s fall, how they said, “Tear it down! Tear it down! Down to its foundations!”<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/psalms/137.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/psalms/137.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />LORD JEHOVAH has remembered the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, when they said, "Lay bare, lay bare unto its foundations"!<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/psalms/137.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Remember, O LORD, against the children of Edom The day of Jerusalem; Who said: 'Rase it, rase it, Even to the foundation thereof.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/psalms/137.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase <i>it</i>, rase <i>it</i>, even to its foundations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/137-7.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nFaD2oDhKPc?start=17112" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/psalms/137.htm">By the Rivers of Babylon</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">6</span>May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy! <span class="reftext">7</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/2142.htm" title="2142: zə·ḵōr (V-Qal-Imp-ms) -- Remember. A primitive root; properly, to mark, i.e. To remember; by implication, to mention; also to be male.">Remember,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">O LORD,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: liḇ·nê (Prep-l:: N-mpc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">the sons</a> <a href="/hebrew/123.htm" title="123: ’ĕ·ḏō·wm (N-proper-ms) -- The name of a condiment. Or oedowm; from 'adom; red; Edom, the elder twin-brother of Jacob; hence the region occupied by him.">of Edom</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’êṯ (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yō·wm (N-msc) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">on the day</a> <a href="/hebrew/3389.htm" title="3389: yə·rū·šā·lim (N-proper-fs) -- Probably foundation of peace, capital city of all Isr. ">Jerusalem fell:</a> <a href="/hebrew/6168.htm" title="6168: ‘ā·rū (V-Piel-Imp-mp) -- To be naked or bare. A primitive root; to be bare; hence, to empty, pour out, demolish.">“Destroy it,”</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: hā·’ō·mə·rîm (Art:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-mp) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">they said,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6168.htm" title="6168: ‘ā·rū (V-Piel-Imp-mp) -- To be naked or bare. A primitive root; to be bare; hence, to empty, pour out, demolish.">“tear it down</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/3247.htm" title="3247: hay·sō·wḏ (Art:: N-ms) -- Foundation, base. From yacad; a foundation.">its foundations!”</a> <a href="/hebrew/bāh (Prep:: 3fs) -- "></a> </span><span class="reftext">8</span>O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/obadiah/1-10.htm">Obadiah 1:10-14</a></span><br />Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever. / On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them. / But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/4-21.htm">Lamentations 4:21-22</a></span><br />So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself. / O Daughter of Zion, your punishment is complete; He will not prolong your exile. But He will punish your iniquity, O Daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/25-12.htm">Ezekiel 25:12-14</a></span><br />This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt, / therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword. / I will take My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to My anger and wrath. Then they will know My vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/34-5.htm">Isaiah 34:5-8</a></span><br />When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction. / The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom. / And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/49-7.htm">Jeremiah 49:7-22</a></span><br />Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed? / Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him. / If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/1-11.htm">Amos 1:11-12</a></span><br />This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly. / So I will send fire upon Teman to consume the citadels of Bozrah.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/1-2.htm">Malachi 1:2-4</a></span><br />“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved, / but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.” / Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/63-1.htm">Isaiah 63:1-6</a></span><br />Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.” / Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress? / “I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/25-21.htm">Jeremiah 25:21</a></span><br />Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/35-1.htm">Ezekiel 35:1-15</a></span><br />Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, / “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it, / and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/3-19.htm">Joel 3:19</a></span><br />Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/21-11.htm">Isaiah 21:11-12</a></span><br />This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?” / The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/50-14.htm">Jeremiah 50:14-15</a></span><br />Line up in formation around Babylon, all you who draw the bow! Shoot at her! Spare no arrows! For she has sinned against the LORD. / Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/23-35.htm">Matthew 23:35</a></span><br />And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/19-43.htm">Luke 19:43-44</a></span><br />For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. / They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof.</p><p class="hdg">remember</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/74-18.htm">Psalm 74:18</a></b></br> Remember this, <i>that</i> the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and <i>that</i> the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/79-8.htm">Psalm 79:8-12</a></b></br> O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/17-14.htm">Exodus 17:14</a></b></br> And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this <i>for</i> a memorial in a book, and rehearse <i>it</i> in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.</p><p class="hdg">the children</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/63-1.htm">Isaiah 63:1-6</a></b></br> Who <i>is</i> this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this <i>that is</i> glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/49-7.htm">Jeremiah 49:7</a></b></br> Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; <i>Is</i> wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/lamentations/4-21.htm">Lamentations 4:21,22</a></b></br> Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked… </p><p class="hdg">raise it.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/29-9.htm">Bare</a> <a href="/psalms/102-25.htm">Base</a> <a href="/psalms/135-19.htm">Children</a> <a href="/psalms/130-1.htm">Cried</a> <a href="/psalms/108-10.htm">Edom</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/28-17.htm">Edomites</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/28-17.htm">E'domites</a> <a href="/psalms/107-12.htm">Fell</a> <a href="/psalms/102-25.htm">Foundation</a> <a href="/psalms/104-5.htm">Foundations</a> <a href="/psalms/137-6.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/psalms/104-22.htm">Lay</a> <a href="/psalms/136-23.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/psalms/137-6.htm">Remember</a> <a href="/psalms/58-6.htm">Tear</a> <a href="/psalms/137-2.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/psalms/36-2.htm">Uncovered</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/psalms/141-8.htm">Bare</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-12.htm">Base</a> <a href="/psalms/144-7.htm">Children</a> <a href="/psalms/138-3.htm">Cried</a> <a href="/isaiah/11-14.htm">Edom</a> <a href="/genesis/36-9.htm">Edomites</a> <a href="/genesis/36-9.htm">E'domites</a> <a href="/isaiah/53-5.htm">Fell</a> <a href="/proverbs/10-25.htm">Foundation</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-19.htm">Foundations</a> <a href="/psalms/147-2.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/proverbs/1-18.htm">Lay</a> <a href="/psalms/143-5.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/psalms/143-5.htm">Remember</a> <a href="/proverbs/15-25.htm">Tear</a> <a href="/proverbs/1-19.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/psalms/139-23.htm">Uncovered</a><div class="vheading2">Psalm 137</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/137-1.htm">The constancy of the Jews in captivity</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/137-7.htm">The prophet curses Edom and Babel</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/psalms/137.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/psalms/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/psalms/137.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom</b><br>This phrase is a plea for divine justice against the Edomites, who were descendants of Esau, Jacob's brother. The Edomites had a long-standing enmity with Israel, as seen in <a href="/genesis/25-23.htm">Genesis 25:23</a> and <a href="/numbers/20-14.htm">Numbers 20:14-21</a>. Their hostility is further highlighted in the prophetic books, such as Obadiah, which pronounces judgment on Edom for their actions against Jerusalem. The call for God to "remember" implies a request for God to act in accordance with His justice and covenant promises.<p><b>on the day Jerusalem fell:</b><br>This refers to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 BC. The Edomites are accused of rejoicing over the fall of Jerusalem and even aiding the Babylonians, as lamented in <a href="/lamentations/4-21.htm">Lamentations 4:21-22</a>. The historical context underscores the deep betrayal felt by the Israelites, as Edom was a neighboring nation with familial ties. This event is a pivotal moment in Jewish history, marking the beginning of the Babylonian exile.<p><b>“Destroy it,” they said,</b><br>The Edomites' call to "destroy" Jerusalem reveals their active participation in the city's downfall. This phrase captures the malicious intent and schadenfreude of Edom, which is condemned in other scriptures like <a href="/ezekiel/25-12.htm">Ezekiel 25:12-14</a>. The Edomites' actions are seen as a violation of kinship and covenantal obligations, intensifying the call for divine retribution.<p><b>“tear it down to its foundations!”</b><br>This expression of total destruction emphasizes the depth of Edom's animosity. The desire to see Jerusalem razed to its foundations signifies a wish for complete obliteration, leaving no trace of the city. This imagery is powerful, evoking the idea of erasing the cultural and religious identity of the Israelites. Theologically, it contrasts with the hope of restoration and rebuilding found in prophecies like <a href="/isaiah/44-28.htm">Isaiah 44:28</a>, where God promises to restore Jerusalem.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_sons_of_edom.htm">The Sons of Edom</a></b><br>Descendants of Esau, Jacob's brother, who historically had a contentious relationship with the Israelites. In this verse, they are remembered for their role in the destruction of Jerusalem.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a></b><br>The holy city of the Israelites, which was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC. This event is central to the lament of <a href="/bsb/psalms/137.htm">Psalm 137</a>.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_fall_of_jerusalem.htm">The Fall of Jerusalem</a></b><br>A significant event in Jewish history where the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem, leading to the destruction of the Temple and the exile of the Jewish people.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_betrayal.htm">The Consequences of Betrayal</a></b><br>The actions of Edom serve as a warning against betrayal and taking pleasure in the downfall of others. God holds nations and individuals accountable for their actions against His people.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_justice_and_memory.htm">God's Justice and Memory</a></b><br>This verse reminds us that God remembers the actions of nations and individuals. His justice may not be immediate, but it is certain. We can trust God to address wrongs in His timing.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_solidarity_among_believers.htm">The Importance of Solidarity Among Believers</a></b><br>The betrayal by Edom, a relative nation, underscores the importance of unity and support among believers, especially in times of crisis.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_lament_in_faith.htm">The Role of Lament in Faith</a></b><br>Psalm 137 as a whole, including this verse, teaches us the value of lament. It is a legitimate expression of faith to bring our pain and desire for justice before God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_psalm_137.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Psalm 137</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_prompted_god's_judgment_on_edom.htm">What prompted God's judgment on Edom?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_will_edom_be_judged_for_pride.htm">How will Edom face judgment for its pride and betrayal?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_psalm_137_align_with_divine_justice.htm">How does Psalm 137 align with divine justice, given that it appears to advocate collective punishment? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/who_is_the_author_of_obadiah.htm">Who is the author of Obadiah?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/psalms/137.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(7) <span class= "bld">Remember </span>. . .--<span class= "ital">Remember, Jehovah, for the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem. </span>The prophecy of Obadiah gives the best comment on this verse: "For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress" (<a href="/context/obadiah/1-10.htm" title="For your violence against your brother Jacob shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.">Obadiah 1:10-12</a>.) (See Excursus on the date and authorship of that book.)<p><span class= "bld">Rase </span>. . .--Literally, <span class= "ital">make naked or bare. </span>(Comp. a similar use of another verb, <a href="/micah/1-6.htm" title="Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.">Micah 1:6</a>.) The LXX. and Vulg. have "empty out, empty out."<p><span class= "bld">Thereof.--</span>Literally, <span class= "ital">in it.</span><p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/psalms/137.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 7.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem</span>; rather, <span class="accented">remember</span>, <span class="accented">O Lord</span>, <span class="accented">to the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem</span>. "The day of Jerusalem" is the day of her fall, when Edom took part with her enemies, and rejoiced at her destruction (see <a href="/lamentations/4-21.htm">Lamentations 4:21, 22</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/25-12.htm">Ezekiel 25:12</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/35-5.htm">Ezekiel 35:5</a>; <a href="/obadiah/1-10.htm">Obadiah 1:10-14</a>). The psalmist prays God to "remember" this to Edom, and requite it upon her (comp. <a href="/psalms/132-1.htm">Psalm 132:1</a>, where the same expression is used in a good sense). <span class="cmt_word">Who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof</span>; <span class="accented">i</span>.<span class="accented">e</span>. "destroy the city utterly - leave not one stone upon another." The enmity between Edom and Israel was of the intensest character (see <a href="/1_kings/11-15.htm">1 Kings 11:15, 16</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/18-12.htm">1 Chronicles 18:12</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/49-7.htm">Jeremiah 49:7-22</a>; <a href="/amos/1-11.htm">Amos 1:11, 12</a>; <a href="/malachi/1-3.htm">Malachi 1:3-5</a>). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/psalms/137-7.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Remember,</span><br /><span class="heb">זְכֹ֤ר</span> <span class="translit">(zə·ḵōr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2142.htm">Strong's 2142: </a> </span><span class="str2">To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male</span><br /><br /><span class="word">O LORD,</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָ֨ה ׀</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the sons</span><br /><span class="heb">לִבְנֵ֬י</span> <span class="translit">(liḇ·nê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> </span><span class="str2">A son</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Edom</span><br /><span class="heb">אֱד֗וֹם</span> <span class="translit">(’ĕ·ḏō·wm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_123.htm">Strong's 123: </a> </span><span class="str2">The name of a condiment</span><br /><br /><span class="word">on the day</span><br /><span class="heb">י֤וֹם</span> <span class="translit">(yō·wm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> </span><span class="str2">A day</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Jerusalem [fell]:</span><br /><span class="heb">יְֽרוּשָׁ֫לִָ֥ם</span> <span class="translit">(yə·rū·šā·lim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3389.htm">Strong's 3389: </a> </span><span class="str2">Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">“Destroy it,”</span><br /><span class="heb">עָ֤רוּ ׀</span> <span class="translit">(‘ā·rū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6168.htm">Strong's 6168: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be, bare, to empty, pour out, demolish</span><br /><br /><span class="word">they said,</span><br /><span class="heb">הָ֭אֹ֣מְרִים</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ō·mə·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> </span><span class="str2">To utter, say</span><br /><br /><span class="word">“tear it down</span><br /><span class="heb">עָ֑רוּ</span> <span class="translit">(‘ā·rū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6168.htm">Strong's 6168: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be, bare, to empty, pour out, demolish</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to</span><br /><span class="heb">עַ֝֗ד</span> <span class="translit">(‘aḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> </span><span class="str2">As far as, even to, up to, until, while</span><br /><br /><span class="word">its foundations!”</span><br /><span class="heb">הַיְס֥וֹד</span> <span class="translit">(hay·sō·wḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3247.htm">Strong's 3247: </a> </span><span class="str2">Foundation, base</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/137-7.htm">Psalm 137:7 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/137-7.htm">Psalm 137:7 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/137-7.htm">Psalm 137:7 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/137-7.htm">Psalm 137:7 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/psalms/137-7.htm">Psalm 137:7 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/137-7.htm">Psalm 137:7 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/psalms/137-7.htm">Psalm 137:7 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/psalms/137-7.htm">Psalm 137:7 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/psalms/137-7.htm">Psalm 137:7 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/psalms/137-7.htm">Psalm 137:7 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/psalms/137-7.htm">OT Poetry: Psalm 137:7 Remember Yahweh against the children of Edom (Psalm Ps Psa.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/psalms/137-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 137:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 137:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/psalms/137-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 137:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 137:8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>