Psalms 137:1, The constancy of the Jews in captivity; Psalms 137:7, The prophet curses Edom and Babel.
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Psalms 137
Psalms 137 — Overview
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Psalms 137 — OverviewPsalms 137 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThere 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…Psalms 137 — OverviewPsalms 137 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThe occasion of this psalm was the captivity of the Jews in Babylon, and the treatment they met with there; either as foreseen, or as now endured. Aben Ezra ascribes this psalm to David; and so the Syriac version, which…Psalms 137:1-6Psalms 137:1-6 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleWe have here the daughter of Zion covered with a cloud, and dwelling
with the daughter of Babylon; the people of God in tears, but sowing in
tears. Observe,
I. The mournful posture they were in as to their…Psalms 137:1Psalms 137:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryBy the rivers of Babylon The Euphrates and the canals derived from it, which were many, and filled with running, not stagnant, water. These would present themselves to the exiles as "rivers." There we sat down, yea, we…Psalms 137:1Psalms 137:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe tears of memory.
"Yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." The rivers of Babylon and the district were the Euphrates, the Tigris, and the branch streams of those rivers. The writer of the psalm is not in Babylon,…Psalms 137:1-6Psalms 137:1-6 · The Pulpit CommentaryBy the rivers of Babylon, etc.
"The psalm expresses the feelings of an exile who has but just returned from the land of his captivity."
I. THE LOSS OF LIBERTY TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL.
1. Brings after it the most…