Remember: Psalms 74:18, Psalms 79:8-12; Exodus 17:14; 1 Samuel 15:2; Hosea 7:2
the children: Isaiah 63:1-6; Jeremiah 49:7-22; Lamentations 4:21-22; Ezekiel 25:12-14; Obadiah 1:10-14, Obadiah 1:18-21
Raze it: Heb. make bare
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Psalms 137:7
Psalms 137:7
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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 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgePsalms 137:1, The constancy of the Jews in captivity; Psalms 137:7, The prophet curses Edom and Babel.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 137:1-9Psalms 137:1-9 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITION
"THE most direct and striking reminiscence of the Babylonish exile in the whole Psalter" (Professor Alexander). The psalm divides into two parts. First, we are given a picture of the unhappy condition of the…Psalms 137:1-9Psalms 137:1-9 · The Pulpit CommentaryIncongruity in religion.
The psalm brings before us in very vivid color—
I. THE DARK SHADOW CAST BY A GREAT GOOD. Patriotism is an excellent thing, and we are all of us glad and thankful to belong to a land of light…Psalms 137:1-9Psalms 137:1-9 · The Pulpit CommentaryFruits of exile from God.
It was Israel's, or rather Judah's, exile from Zion and Jerusalem that this psalm commemorated; but the fruits that exile bore, and which are here told of, set forth the fruits of the yet…