If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
There is no question that the cunning of his right hand has to do with music. Imagine them using the songs of their faith to entertain the pagan world and then, the Psalmist says, through the very use of that music, forgetting the plan of God for them. If we think of Jerusalem as the place of the Temple, then we can extend this to using the songs of their faith to forget the house of God.
I am thinking of so many famous musicians, especially of a generation ago, who got their start singing in church. A few of them I’ve heard of continued to sing a hymn or gospel song in their concerts, even if that concert was in a bar. They essentially defiled the song by using it in that manner. They may have believed that they were being some sort of a Christian witness and thereby salved their conscience. In truth, they had defiled themselves all the more, not merely for rejecting the life God has for those who follow Him but by using that which belongs to God to forget those things that belong to God.
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