Psalm 136
By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and we wept when we remembered Sion. Upon the willows in the midst thereof did we hang our instruments. For there, they that had taken us captive asked us for words of song. Adn they that had led us away asked us for a hymn, saying: Sing us one of the songs of Sion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten. Let my tongue cleave to my throat, if I remember thee not, If I set not Jerusalem above all other, as at the heads of my joy. Remember, O Lord, the sons of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem, Who said, Lay waste to her, even to the foundations thereof. O daughter of Babylon, thou wretched one, blessed shall he be who shall reward thee wherewith thou hast rewarded us. Blessed shall he be who shall seize and dash thine infants against the rock.

The question is posed over and over again. “Why do they hate us? How can they kill children?” There is a terrible answer in this psalm.

The other question that doesn't get asked is “How can you fire a tank round filled with over a thousand flechettes at women and children?” I'm sure there is an equally terrible answer in another psalm, but I'm afraid to look. I am not afraid to pray.
Alfred Ingram
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