Psalms 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
In Context
2Upon the willows in the midst thereof we hanged up our harps.
Cross References
Ezra 8:21Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of Him a straight way, for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Nehemiah 1:3And they said unto me: 'The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach; the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.'
Job 2:12And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and threw dust upon their heads toward heaven.
Psalms 102:9(102-10) For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Jeremiah 8:19Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far off: 'Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her?' — 'Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, and with strange vanities?' —
Jeremiah 13:17But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and mine eyes shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 137:1
There are divers psalms which are thought to have been penned in the latter days of the Jewish church, when prophecy was near expiring and the canon of the Old Testament ready to be closed up, but none of them appears so plainly to be of a late date as this, which was penned when the people of God were captives in Babylon, and there insulted over by these proud oppressors; probably it was towards the latter end of their captivity; for now they saw the destruction of Babylon hastening on apace ( ver. 8 ), which… Read the whole commentary →