Psalms 136:1
A Psalm of David: to Jeremiah. Above the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept, while we remembered Zion.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
In Context
2By the willow trees, in their midst, we hung up our instruments.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 16:41And after him, Heman, and Jeduthun, and the remainder of the elect, each one by his name, were appointed to confess to the Lord: “For his mercy endures forever.”
2 Chronicles 7:6Then the priests and the Levites were standing in their offices, with the instruments of music for the Lord, which king David made in order to praise the Lord: “For his mercy is eternal.” And they were playing the hymns of David with their hands. And the priests were sounding out with trumpets before them, and all of Israel was standing.
Ezra 3:11And they sung together with hymns and confession to the Lord: “For he is good. For his mercy is over Israel unto eternity.” And likewise, all the people shouted with a great clamor in praise to the Lord, because the temple of the Lord had been founded.
Psalms 103:17There, the sparrows will make their nests. The leader of them is the house of the heron.
Psalms 106:1Alleluia. Confess to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy is with every generation.
Psalms 118:1Alleluia. Blessed are the immaculate in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 136:1
The scope of this psalm is the same with that of the foregoing psalm , but there is something very singular in the composition of it; for the latter half of each verse is the same, repeated throughout the psalm, "for his mercy endureth for ever," and yet no vain repetition. It is allowed that such burdens, or "keepings," as we call them, add very much to the beauty of a song, and help to make it moving and affecting; nor can any verse contain more weighty matter, or more worthy to be thus repeated, than this, that… Read the whole commentary →