Lesson: Love for the Church
Reading: Israel's love for Jerusalem
Reference: Ps. 137:1-6
Psalms 137:1: By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Psalms 137:2: We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
Psalms 137:3: For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Psalms 137:4: How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
Psalms 137:5: If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
Psalms 137:6: If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
(KJV)