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Psalms 137:1-4

137:1

[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.]


137:2

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."


137:3

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.]


137:4

sing <07891> [How shall.]

foreign land <0127 05236> [strange land. Heb. land of a stranger.]


Ecclesiastes 3:4

3:4

time ... weep .... time ..... time ...... time <01058 06256> [time to weep.]

time ...... time ... laugh ... time ...... time <06256 07832> [a time to laugh.]

dance <07540> [to dance.]


Isaiah 21:4

21:4

My heart <08582 03824> [heart panted. or, mind wandered. the night.]

brought <07760> [turned. Heb. put.]


Isaiah 22:12

22:12

called <07121> [call.]

shaved heads <07144> [to baldness.]


Isaiah 24:7-9

24:7


24:8


24:9


Lamentations 5:15

5:15

dancing <04234> [our dance.]


Daniel 6:18

6:18

spent the night <0956> [and passed.]

diversions <01761> [instruments. or, table. and.]




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