Prophetic Song: River of Babylon, Psalm 137
Sunday December 14, 2025
Respectfully Submitted,
Barry Wunsch
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I woke up on this morning with this song in my spirit and I could not shake it, the song was River of Babylon by ABBA…
Link to song:
It is so catchy to me, and I really like it!
I put it on repeat and played it over and over and over…
As I listened, it stirred my Spirit, and the Lord began to drop things into my heart and spirit.
It was one of those revelation moments for me.
I got up and cracked open my Bible – one of those random just crack it open and have a look, well to my shock and awe it opened at Psalm 137.
The very verse the song was written from.
Psalm 137
1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
2 There on the poplars
we hung our harps,
3 for there our captors asked us for songs,
our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4 How can we sing the songs of the Lord
while in a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.
6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not consider Jerusalem
my highest joy.
7 Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did
on the day Jerusalem fell.
“Tear it down,” they cried,
“tear it down to its foundations!”
8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who repays you
according to what you have done to us.
9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.
So, to paint the picture here a little bit:
Psalm 137 is one of the starkest and most emotionally charged texts in the Psalms.
It does not comfort so much as confront, and it does so honestly—without varnish or sentimentality.
Historical setting — grief in exile
This psalm is rooted in the Babylonian Exile (6th century BC), after Jerusalem was destroyed and the people of Judah were forcibly removed from their homeland.
The opening line, “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and wept”, places us squarely in a foreign land.
Israel has lost its temple, its king, and its sense of divine order.
This is not poetic exaggeration; it is national trauma.
The rivers of Babylon were symbols of prosperity and power, yet for the exiles they were reminders of defeat.
Their captors ask them to sing “one of the songs of Zion”—not out of reverence, but mockery.
Music, which once belonged to worship, has been reduced to entertainment for their oppressors.
Hence the anguished question: How do you sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
Memory as resistance
Verses 5–6 are a solemn oath. Forgetting Jerusalem would be a betrayal of identity and covenant.
When the psalmist says, “If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill,” he is saying that life itself would lose its meaning if faith were severed from memory.
This is an important biblical theme: remembering is an act of faith. Israel survives exile not by assimilation, but by remembrance—of place, promise, and God’s faithfulness, even when circumstances suggest otherwise.
The hard ending — righteous anger, not polite piety
The final verses are jarring to modern ears, especially the line about dashing infants against rocks.
This is not a command or moral prescription; it is a raw cry for justice voiced by people who have seen their own children slaughtered and their city razed.
Babylon did exactly this to others.
Scripture does not sanitize human emotion before God.
Psalm 137 gives us permission to bring even our darkest thoughts into God’s presence rather than acting on them.
The psalmist does not take vengeance—he names it, entrusts it to God, and leaves judgment where it belongs.
Psalm 137 reminds us that faith is not always calm, and worship is not always gentle.
There are seasons when obedience looks like refusal—to forget, to comply, to pretend everything is fine.
The psalm stands as a warning against shallow spirituality that skips grief and bypasses justice.
In short, Psalm 137 teaches that:
Lament is not weakness; it is fidelity under pressure.
Memory anchors faith when the world is upside down.
God can handle unfiltered truth from His people.
It is not a comfortable psalm, but it is an honest one—and honesty before God has always been the bedrock of genuine faith.
The part that really spoke to me was the cry for Justice in the hearts of the people that were being humiliated by their enemies.
Furthermore, I believe that the Lord is saying to us here and today that He is turning the tables, and Justice is being released right now against our enemies!
The Father is releasing us from our captors and releasing victory unto us!
My sense is that in 2026, the Lord is going to do unprecedented signs, wonders and miracles throughout the Nations, bringing freedom, Justice, healing and deliverance to His people on a scale that we have never seen before.
There is a cry that has been building up throughout the Nations, we can see it.
Pressures are building and It is like a keg of gunpowder ready to blow, and when it does it is going to annihilate the enemy and our captures bring a path for justice and freedom.
The Lord has His Hand upon certain one to facilitate this, and President Trump is one.
The Globalist, Cabal deep state that has been holding the Nation’s captive are about to be obliterated!
And we shall once again sing a song unto the Lord like never before!
We shall overcome and recover all!
Most Sincerely,
Barry Wunsch
The Canadian Hammer
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Barry Wunsch
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