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.
rivers <05104> [the rivers.]
[there sat.]
weep <01058> [we wept.]
hang <08518> [we hanged.]
Willows were so plentiful at Babylon, on the banks of the Euphrates, that Isaiah calls it "the brook or river of willows."
captors <07617> [For there.]
<01697> [a song. Heb. the words of a song. wasted us. Heb. laid us on heaps.]
songs ................ song ... Zion <06726 07892> [the songs of Zion.]
sing <07891> [How shall.]
foreign land <0127 05236> [strange land. Heb. land of a stranger.]
forget .......... crippled <07911> [I forget.]
right hand <03225> [let my right.]
tongue <03956> [let my tongue.]
give <05927> [if I prefer.]
priority ........ joy <08057 07218> [my chief joy. Heb. the head of my joy.]
Remember <02142> [Remember.]
Edomites <01121> [the children.]
[Rase it. Heb. make bare.]
daughter <01323> [daughter.]
devastated <07703> [who art.]
devastated <07703> [destroyed. Heb. wasted. happy.]
[rewardeth. etc. Heb. recompenseth unto thee thy deed which thou didst unto us.]
smashes <05310> [and dasheth.]
rock <05553> [the stones. Heb. the rock.]
