PSALMS OF ASCENT: Restoration Psalm 126
It's hard to imagine what that day might have been like. My guess is that they knew that it was coming because the army was gathering and building around the outside of the city. But that day---that day when the walls of Jerusalem (their very shield) started to come down at the hands of the Babylonians. That day must have been like no other day they ever experienced in their life. Every single dad was trying to protect his kids; every single mom was trying to stand in the way of harm coming. As that wall came down, every single Israelite that stood in the city of Jerusalem knew that their life from that day forward was going to be definitively different. It happened in 586 BC when the Babylonians came and took over. They took all the Israelites off into exile where they were to live the rest of their days, presumably, under Babylonian rule. Where they didn't get the chance to celebrate their own culture, where they didn't get the chance to worship freely their own God. They were taken from their homes and displaced from everything that they knew and every dream that they had or hope that they saw on the distant horizon; it all vanished on that day as those rocks started coming down. Can you imagine what that might have been like? If you're a parent, can you imagine what it might have been like to know that you had a journey in front of you where you had to try to protect your family and your kids, not knowing, even if you made it those 500 miles from Jerusalem to Babylon, what might be waiting for you when you got there? Could you imagine, if you were a single person and not having protection from a family that you loved and cared for, how alone you must have felt as you made that walk? It's hard for us to imagine what THAT day might have been like and what THAT cloud that came over that Israelite nation might have felt like.
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