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 1:1

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

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 2:15,16

a 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 21:6

the songs of Zion.

9:14; 65:1; 1Ch 15:27; 16:7; Isa 35:10; 51:11; Jer 31:12,13

Re 14:1-3

How shall.

Ec 3:4; Isa 22:12; La 5:14,15; Ho 9:4; Am 8:3

strange land. Heb. land of a stranger.

Isa 49:21

Ecclesiastes 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 9:15

Mt 11:17; Joh 16:20-22; Ro 12:15; 2Co 7:10; Jas 4:9

a time to laugh.

Ge 21:6; Lu 1:13,14,58; 6:21-25

to dance.

Ex 15:20; 2Sa 6:16

Isaiah 21:4

heart panted. or, mind wandered. the night.

5:11-14; 1Sa 25:36-38; 2Sa 13:28,29; Es 5:12; 7:6-10

Job 21:11-13; Jer 51:39,57; Da 5:1,5,30; Na 1:10; Lu 21:34-36

turned. 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 4:8-10

Jas 5:1

to baldness.

15:2; Ezr 9:3; Job 1:20; Am 8:10; Jon 3:6; Mic 1:16

Isaiah 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 5:18,19

Lamentations 5:15

our dance.

Ps 30:11; Am 6:4-7; 8:10; Jas 4:9,10

Daniel 6:18

and passed.

2Sa 12:16,17; 19:24; 1Ki 21:27; Job 21:12; Ps 137:2; Ec 2:8

Isa 24:8,9; Am 6:4-6; Jon 3:3-9; Re 18:22

instruments. or, table. and.

2:1; Es 6:1; Ps 77:4
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