RE: Questions I have had about the Bible recently...
May 6, 2021 at 4:27 pm
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2021 at 4:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 6, 2021 at 4:03 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: The most sensible answer I received is that "song of the Lord" is supposed to be a joyous song, and that it is inappropriate to sing it while in exile.
I guess that would be a gentle way of putting it. The narration is pretty explicit. In 1-3 a pow train is described as hanging it's harps in sorrow along the banks of the river when their captors ask them to sing the songs of zion in 4. From 5 onward the author says he'd rather forget how to play, how to speak, even. He recalls the day that jerusalem fell and ends the psalm fantasizing about the deaths of his captors children.
They eventually move beyond those misgivings, historically speaking, as people in diaspora tend to do. They found a way to keep singing.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
