The late, great Rich Mullins on Psalm 137, from a concert in Texas shortly before his death:
It starts out: “By the waters of Babylon we lay down and wept when we remembered thee Zion, for our captors required of us songs, saying, ‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion.’ But how can we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?” Which is a good question because what land have we ever been in that wasn’t foreign?It starts out so beautifully and then at the end of that psalm, the last verse of that psalm is, “How very blessed is the man who dashes their little ones’ heads against the rocks.” This is not the sort of scripture you read at a pro-life meeting. But it’s in there nonetheless.Which is the thing about the Bible . . . that’s why it always cracks me up when people say, “Well, in du du du du du du du duh, it says . . .” You kinda go, “Wow! It says a lot of things in there!” Proof-texting is a very, very dangerous thing. I think if we were given the Scriptures, it was not so that we could prove that we were right about everything. If we were given the Scriptures, it was to humble us into realizing that God is right and the rest of us are just guessing.