Psa 137:1, Jer 51:63-64, Mic 4:10 | TSK | STEP | The constancy of the Jews in captivity. The prophet curses Edom and Babel. A.M. cir. 3463. B.C. cir. 541. (Title.)The author of this beautiful and affecting elegy is unknown, but the occasion is evident; and it was most probably composed during, or near the close of, the captivity. the rivers. there sat. we wept.

Psalms 137:1

1 The constancy of the Jews in captivity.

7 The prophet curses Edom and Babel.

A.M. cir. 3463. B.C. cir. 541. (Title.)The author of this beautiful and affecting elegy is unknown, but the occasion is evident; and it was most probably composed during, or near the close of, the captivity.

the rivers.

Ge 2:10-14; Ezr 8:21,31; Eze 1:1

there sat.

Ne 1:3,4; 2:3; Job 2:12,13; Jer 13:17,18; 15:17; La 2:10; Eze 3:15

we wept.

42:4; 102:9-14; Isa 66:10; Jer 51:50,51; La 1:16; 2:11,18; 3:48,51

Da 9:3; 10:2,3; Lu 19:41; Re 11:3

Jeremiah 51:63-64

thou shalt bind.This was the emblem of its overthrow and irretrievable ruin; and the same emblem is employed in Re 18:21, to denote the utter ruin of mystical Babylon.

19:10,11; Re 18:21

Thus shall.

42; 25:27; Na 1:8,9; Re 14:8; 18:2,21

they shall.

58; Hab 2:13; Ps 76:12

Thus far.

Job 31:40; Ps 72:20

Micah 4:10

and labour.

Isa 66:7-9; Ho 13:13; Joh 16:20-22

shalt thou.

2Ki 20:18; 25:4; 2Ch 33:11; 36:20; Ho 1:10; 2:14; Re 12:14

there shalt.

7:8-13; Ezr 1:1,2; Isa 45:13; 48:20; 52:9-12; Zec 2:7-9

redeem.

Ps 106:10; Jer 15:21