This article engages with Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim That God Speaks, offering an explanation and critique of Wolterstorff’s move from the first to the second hermeneutic in his interpretation of Psalm 137. The essay concludes that Wolterstorff’s method does account for the divine intention in part, but ultimately suffers from a limited connection to speech act theory. The article wants to present Psalm 137 as an authoritative canonical text by clarifying how it continues to function as divine discourse.