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Psalms 137:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

For there: Psalms 123:3-4; Lamentations 2:15-16

a song: Heb. the words of a song

wasted us: Heb. laid us on heaps, Psalms 79:1; Nehemiah 4:2; Jeremiah 9:11, Jeremiah 26:18; Micah 3:12; Luke 21:6

the songs of Zion: Psalms 9:14, Psalms 65:1; 1 Chronicles 15:27, 1 Chronicles 16:7; Isaiah 35:10, Isaiah 51:11; Jeremiah 31:12-13; Revelation 14:1-3

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