Psalms

Psalm 137 ©

1 The constant affection of the Jews in captivity to their desolate country. 7 Edom and Babylon are cursed.

1

BY athe rivers of Babylon, there we bsat down, yea, we wept, when cwe remembered Zion.

a Ge. 2.10-14. Eze. 1.1. Da. 8.1.
b Job 2.12. La. 2.10. Je. 15.17.
c Ps. 42.4. Je. 51.50. Zep. 3.10.
2

We dhanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

d La. 5.15; 1.16,17; 2.5,10; 3.1,49.
3

For ethere they that carried us away captive *required of us 1a song; and they that 2wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

e Ps. 79.1; 44.13-16. Je. 9.11. La. 2.15,16.
4

How fshall we sing the LORD's song in a 3*strange land?

f Am. 8.3. La. 5.15. Mat. 7.6. Ne. 2.3.
5

If gI forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her *cunning.

g Da. 6.10,11. Je. 51.50. Ne. 1.3,4. Ps. 122. 2Co. 11.28,29. Phi. 2.4,21. Job 31.22. 1Sa. 4.19,21,22.
6

If I do not remember thee, let my htongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; iif I prefer not Jerusalem above 4my chief joy.

h Job 29.10.
i Ps. 84.10.
7

jRemember, O LORD, kthe chil-dren of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, 5*Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

j 1Sa. 15.2. Ho. 7.2.
k Ob. 1.10-14. Je. 49.7-22. Eze. 25.12-14. La. 4.22. Mal. 1.4.
8

O daughter of Babylon, lwho art to be 6destroyed; happy shall he be, 7that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

l Is. 13; 14; 21; 47. Je. 50; 51. Re. 18.6.
9

Happy shall he be, that taketh and mdasheth thy little ones against 8the stones.

m Is. 13.16. Ho. 10.14; 13.16. Re. 2.23; 13.10.