Psalm 137:7
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What does Psalm 137:7 mean?
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, ( Obadiah
1:11-14 ) . 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 F9 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.
F9 (wre) "nudate", Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schmidt.
