{"podcast":{"title":"Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day","slug":"daily-psalms-classical-psalms-every-day-6735312","podcast_index_feed_id":6735312,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/daily-psalm-classical-psalms-every-day","website_url":"https://lumivoz.com","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ZVAEpYIuIun1t0gCO0JDGsOI3vfBf9EDlzEWhlmAM0k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYTI4/MzVhZWJjYTI1MDMy/ODg4MTI5NzlhMDg5/NmY2ZS5wbmc.jpg","author":"https://lumivoz.com","episode_count":978,"summary":"An audio Psalm a day set to classical music. Begin or end each day meditating on the word of God and the timeless poetry of the Psalms. Each episode is set to beautiful classical and orchestral music that will help you ground your soul in the Bible. For more great podcasts or to hear different Bible translations, visit https://lumivoz.com","last_synced_at":"2026-09-20T08:23:06.791039+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-psalms-classical-psalms-every-day-6735312"},"episode":{"title":"Psalm Chapter 137","slug":"psalm-chapter-137","published_at":"2026-07-29T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-psalms-classical-psalms-every-day-6735312/psalm-chapter-137","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-psalms-classical-psalms-every-day-6735312","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/44bb25cc","audio_url":"https://2.gum.fm/op3.dev/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.transistor.fm/44bb25cc/aae26256.mp3","summary":"Psalm 137: The Harps We Hung in Silence Grief has a geography. The exiles did not merely feel sad — they sat down by the rivers of Babylon and wept. The body participates in sorrow; it finds a place and stays there. And when their captors, with that peculiar cruelty that mistakes entertainment for consolation, demanded a song, the exiles asked the only honest question left to them: \"How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?\" It is not that they had forgotten the music. It is that the music belonged to a place, and the place was gone. To sing it here, for these people, would have been a kind of profanation — like wearing a wedding ring to amuse a thief. So they hung their harps on the willows, and their silence became its own fierce act of loyalty. The psalm ends in violence that disturbs us, and rightly so. But before we rush to explain it away, we might pause and ask: have we ever loved anything enough to be this angry at its destruction? Not every prayer is beautiful. Some prayers are simply the truth, spoken raw. 00:00 By the Rivers of Babylon 01:00 The Anguish of Memory","meta_description":"Psalm 137: The Harps We Hung in Silence Grief has a geography. The exiles did not merely feel sad — they sat down by the rivers of Babylon and wept. The b…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":72,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daily-psalms-classical-psalms-every-day-6735312/episodes/psalm-chapter-137/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-psalms-classical-psalms-every-day-6735312/psalm-chapter-137.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}