Psa 137:1-2 | 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 137:1-2

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