Psalms 137:1-4
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 1:1there sat.Ne 1:3,4; 2:3; Job 2:12,13; Jer 13:17,18; 15:17; La 2:10; Eze 3:15we wept.42:4; 102:9-14; Isa 66:10; Jer 51:50,51; La 1:16; 2:11,18; 3:48,51Da 9:3; 10:2,3; Lu 19:41; Re 11:3 we hanged.Willows were so plentiful at Babylon, on the banks of the Euphrates, that Isaiah calls it "the brook or river of willows." 33:2; 81:2; Isa 24:8; Eze 26:13; Am 8:10; Re 18:22 For there.123:3,4; La 2:15,16a song. Heb. the words of a song. wasted us. Heb. laid uson heaps. 79:1; Ne 4:2; Jer 9:11; 26:18; Mic 3:12; Lu 21:6the songs of Zion.9:14; 65:1; 1Ch 15:27; 16:7; Isa 35:10; 51:11; Jer 31:12,13Re 14:1-3 How shall.Ec 3:4; Isa 22:12; La 5:14,15; Ho 9:4; Am 8:3strange land. Heb. land of a stranger.Isa 49:21Ecclesiastes 3:4
time to weep.Ne 8:9-12; 9:1-38; Ps 30:5; 126:1,2,5,6; Isa 22:12,13; Mt 9:15Mt 11:17; Joh 16:20-22; Ro 12:15; 2Co 7:10; Jas 4:9a time to laugh.Ge 21:6; Lu 1:13,14,58; 6:21-25to dance.Ex 15:20; 2Sa 6:16Isaiah 21:4
heart panted. or, mind wandered. the night.5:11-14; 1Sa 25:36-38; 2Sa 13:28,29; Es 5:12; 7:6-10Job 21:11-13; Jer 51:39,57; Da 5:1,5,30; Na 1:10; Lu 21:34-36turned. Heb. put.Isaiah 22:12
call.2Ch 35:25; Ne 8:9-12; 9:9; Ec 3:4,11; Joe 1:13; 2:17; Jas 4:8-10Jas 5:1to baldness.15:2; Ezr 9:3; Job 1:20; Am 8:10; Jon 3:6; Mic 1:16Isaiah 24:7-9
16:8,10; 32:9-13; Ho 9:1,2; Joe 1:10-12 23:15,16; Jer 7:34; 16:9; 25:10; Eze 26:13; Ho 2:11; Re 18:22 5:11,12; Ps 69:12; Ec 9:7; Am 6:5-7; 8:3,10; Zec 9:15; Eph 5:18,19Lamentations 5:15
our dance.Ps 30:11; Am 6:4-7; 8:10; Jas 4:9,10Daniel 6:18
and passed.2Sa 12:16,17; 19:24; 1Ki 21:27; Job 21:12; Ps 137:2; Ec 2:8Isa 24:8,9; Am 6:4-6; Jon 3:3-9; Re 18:22instruments. or, table. and.2:1; Es 6:1; Ps 77:4
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