Bethany Lutheran Church

Jesus got angry. So, is such a thing as righteous anger? What do we do when we become angry? How do we express that anger? How do we process that anger? The Psalms give us words to help us process this universal emotion. Psalm 137 (ESV)By the waters of Babylon,    there we sat down and wept,    when we remembered Zion.On the willows there    we hung up our lyres.For there our captors    required of us songs,and our tormentors, mirth, saying,    “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”How shall we sing the Lord's song    in a foreign land?If I forget you, O Jerusalem,    let my right hand forget its skill!Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,    if I do not remember you,if I do not set Jerusalem    above my highest joy!Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites    the day of Jerusalem,how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare,    down to its foundations!”O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,    blessed shall he be who repays you    with what you have done to us!Blessed shall he be who takes your lit