The willow tree

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Yesterday we saw Ezekiel experiencing visions of God’s glory.  Today we read about the people who he would minister to for these years of captivity.  It is quite a contrast.

In Psalm 137, we read of the people grieving and weeping over being in a foreign land. They had hung their harps in the willow trees and refuse to sing.

 

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An Experience of the Captivity.
1 By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down and wept,
When we remembered Zion.

2 Upon the willows in the midst of it

We hung our harps.

3 For there our captors demanded of us songs,
And our tormentors mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
4 How can we sing the LORD’S song
In a foreign land?

 

Longings
By Freda Reynolds

They hung their harps on a willow tree
So longing to be set free

There dwelling in a foreign place
Heads now hung in their disgrace

They had long neglected right
Now this had become their plight

The captors jeered, “why don’t you sing?
But no song would their hearts bring

They were longing for their homeland
On this then they will stand

We’ll sing again when we’re gathered home
Until that time, our hearts just cry “Shalom”

For us the enemy mocks and jeers
Our eyes at times are fill with tears

Our hearts still long to praise
Jesus our Lord who saves.

One day we will worship, Holy, Holy, Holy
With all the angels and saints in glory

We long for healing of wounds and joy unspeakable
But today,let us rest looking for what seems inconceivable.

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