Psalms 137:1-5
[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.]
