Psalms 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down.Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
In Context
2On the willows in its midst,we hung 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 1:3They said to me, "The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire."
Job 2:12When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and did not recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread,and mixed my drink with tears,
Jeremiah 8:19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: 'Isn't the Lord in Zion? Isn't her King in her?'" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?"
Jeremiah 13:17But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the Lord's flock is taken 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 →