Psalms 137:1--138:8
[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.]
David <01732> [A.M. 3485. B.C. 519. (Title.) A Psalm of David.]
Five MSS. omit {ledawid;} and the LXX. and Arabic prefix also the names of Haggai and Zechariah; and it is probable that it was composed to be sung at the dedication of the second temple.
give you thanks <03034> [I will praise.]
heart <03820> [with my whole.]
The versions and several MSS. add Jehovah.
heavenly assembly <0430> [before.]
heavenly assembly <0430> [the gods. Or, God. Elohim.]
holy <06944> [toward.]
give thanks <03034> [and praise.]
exalted <01431> [for thou hast.]
When <03117> [In the day.]
made ... bold <07292> [strengthenedst.]
kings <04428> [All the kings.]
hear <08085> [when they hear.]
sing <07891> [they shall.]
deeds ....... magnificent <01419> [for great.]
Lord <03068> [Though.]
recognizes ... proud <01364> [but the proud.]
from far away <04801> [afar off.]
<03212> [Though I walk.]
revive <02421> [thou wilt.]
oppose <07971> [thou shalt stretch.]
right <03225> [and thy right.]
avenges <01584> [perfect.]
loyal love <02617> [thy mercy.]
abandon <07503> [forsake.]
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