Ezra 9:4-5

trembled.

10:3; 2Ch 34:27; Ps 119:136; Isa 66:2; Eze 9:4

until.

Ex 29:39; Da 9:21; Ac 3:1

heaviness. or, affliction. I fell.

2Ch 6:13; Ps 95:6; Lu 22:41; Ac 21:5; Eph 3:14

spread.

Ex 9:29,33; 1Ki 8:22,38,54; Ps 141:2; 143:6; Isa 1:15

Nehemiah 1:4

I sat down.

1Sa 4:17-22; Ezr 10:1; Ps 69:9,10; 102:13,14; 137:1; Da 9:3

Zep 3:18; Ro 12:15

the God.

2:4; Ezr 5:11,12; Da 2:18; Jon 1:9

Psalms 42:9

God.

18:2; 28:1; 62:2,6,7; 78:35

Why hast.

13:1; 22:1,2; 44:23,24; 77:9; Isa 40:27; 49:15

why go.

38:6; 43:2; 88:9; Job 30:26-31

because.

55:3; Ec 4:1; La 5:1-16

Psalms 43:2

the God.

28:7; 140:7; Ex 15:2; Isa 40:31; 45:24; Zec 10:12; Eph 6:10

Php 4:13

why dost.

71:9; 77:7; 94:14; 1Ch 28:9

why go.

42:9

Psalms 137:1-5

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

I forget.

84:1,2,10; 102:13,14; 122:5-9; Ne 1:2-4; 2:2,3; Isa 62:1,6,7

Jer 51:50; Da 6:10,11

let my right.

Zec 11:17

Isaiah 66:10

Rejoice ye.

44:23; 65:18; De 32:43; Ro 15:9-12

all ye that love.

Ps 26:8; 84:1-4; 122:6; 137:6

that mourn.

61:2,3; Eze 9:4; Joh 16:20-22; Re 11:3-15

Jeremiah 9:1

1 Jeremiah laments the Jews for their manifold sins;

9 and for their judgment.

12 Disobedience is the cause of their bitter calamity.

17 He exhorts to mourn for their destruction;

23 and to trust not in themselves, but in God.

25 He threatens both Jews and Gentiles.

O that. Heb. Who will give, etc.

4:19; 13:17; 14:17; Ps 119:136; Isa 16:9; 22:4; La 2:11,18,19

La 3:48,49; Eze 21:6,7

weep.

Ps 42:3

the daughter.

6:26; 8:21,22
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