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‏ Psalms 137:1-5

am cir, 3463, bc 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.

the rivers Gen 2:10-14; Ezra 8:21, Ezra 8:31; Ezek 1:1, there sat, Neh 1:3-4, Neh 2:3; Job 2:12-13; Jer 13:17-18, Jer 15:17; Lam 2:10; Ezek 3:15

we wept Ps 42:4, Ps 102:9-14; Isa 66:10; Jer 51:50-51; Lam 1:16, Lam 2:11, Lam 2:18, Lam 3:48, Lam 3:51; Dan 9:3, Dan 10:2-3; Luke 19:41; Rev 11:3

we hanged Willows were so plentiful at Babylon, on the banks of the Euphrates, that Isaiah calls it "the brook or river of willows." Ps 33:2, Ps 81:2; Isa 24:8; Ezek 26:13; Amos 8:10; Rev 18:22

For there Ps 123:3-4; Lam 2:15-16

a song Heb. the words of a song

wasted us Heb. laid us on heaps, Ps 79:1; Neh 4:2; Jer 9:11, Jer 26:18; Mic 3:12; Luke 21:6

the songs of Zion Ps 9:14, Ps 65:1; 1Chr 15:27, 1Chr 16:7; Isa 35:10, Isa 51:11; Jer 31:12-13; Rev 14:1-3

How shall Eccl 3:4; Isa 22:12; Lam 5:14-15; Hos 9:4; Amos 8:3

strange land Heb. land of a stranger, Isa 49:21

I forget Ps 84:1-2, Ps 84:10, Ps 102:13-14, Ps 122:5-9; Neh 1:2-4, Neh 2:2-3; Isa 62:1, Isa 62:6-7; Jer 51:50; Dan 6:10-11

let my right Zech 11:17