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Remember Edom in the Day of Jerusalem
The psalm turns from grief to an unsparing plea that Edom and Babylon receive the violence they inflicted. Verse 9 is an imprecatory cry from traumatized exiles, not a divine command to believers to kill enemy children. Revelation 18:6 plausibly reuses Psalm 137:8’s repay-Babylon logic in its judgment of symbolic Babylon, while the New Testament still forbids personal vengeance.
Psalm 137 explicitly remembers Edom “in the day of Jerusalem,” closely matching Obadiah’s indictment of Edom for violence, gloating, and participation in Jerusalem’s calamity. The two texts independently preserve the same traumatic covenant memory and call for divine justice.
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