Psalms 137
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 49:21 I forget.84:1,2,10; 102:13,14; 122:5-9; Ne 1:2-4; 2:2,3; Isa 62:1,6,7Jer 51:50; Da 6:10,11let my right.Zec 11:17 let my tongue.22:15; Isa 41:17; La 4:4; Eze 3:26if I prefer.84:10; Mt 6:33; Ac 20:24; Php 1:20; 1Th 3:7-9my chief joy. Heb. the head of my joy. Remember.74:18; 79:8-12; Ex 17:14; 1Sa 15:2; Ho 7:2the children.Isa 63:1-6; Jer 49:7-22; La 4:21,22; Eze 25:12-14; Ob 1:10-14,18-21Rase it. Heb. make bare. daughter.Isa 47:1-5; Jer 50:42; 51:33; Zec 2:7who art.Isa 13:1-22; 14:4-24; 21:1; 47:1; Jer 25:12-14; 50:1-51:64Re 14:8-11; 17:1-18; 18:6destroyed. Heb. wasted. happy.149:6-9; Isa 13:3-5; 44:28; Re 17:5,6,14; 18:6,20rewardeth. etc. Heb. recompenseth unto thee thy deed whichthou didst unto us. Jer 50:15-29; Re 18:6 and dasheth.Isa 13:16; Ho 10:14; 13:16the stones. Heb. the rock.
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