Psalms 137:1-2
1 The constancy of the Jews in captivity.7 The prophet curses Edom and Babel. A.M. cir. 3463. B.C. 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.Ge 2:10-14; Ezr 8:21,31; Eze 1:1there sat.Ne 1:3,4; 2:3; Job 2:12,13; Jer 13:17,18; 15:17; La 2:10; Eze 3:15we wept.42:4; 102:9-14; Isa 66:10; Jer 51:50,51; La 1:16; 2:11,18; 3:48,51Da 9:3; 10:2,3; Lu 19:41; Re 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." 33:2; 81:2; Isa 24:8; Eze 26:13; Am 8:10; Re 18:22Ezekiel 17:5
the seed.Zedekiah, brother to Jeconiah. 13; 2Ki 24:17; Jer 37:1planted it in a fruitful field. Heb. put it in a field ofseed. Made him king of Judea. De 8:7-9he placed.Made him dependent on Babylon, the city of great waters, as the willow is on humidity. 19:11,12; Isa 15:7; 44:4
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