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Psalms Chapter 137

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PSALMS

Psalms 137

1By the riuers of Babel we sate, and there wee wept, when we remembred Zion.
Ezekiel 1:1, Ezekiel 1:1, Ezekiel 3:15, Ezekiel 3:15, Luke 19:41
2Wee hanged our harpes vpon the willowes in the middes thereof.
Isaiah 24:8, Ezekiel 26:13, Isaiah 24:8, Ezekiel 26:13, Psalms 81:2
3Then they that ledde vs captiues, required of vs songs and mirth, when wee had hanged vp our harpes, saying, Sing vs one of the songs of Zion.
Luke 21:6, Luke 21:6, Lamentations 2:15, Lamentations 2:16, Micah 3:12
4Howe shall we sing, said we, a song of the Lord in a strange land?
Amos 8:3, Isaiah 22:12, Hosea 9:4, Amos 8:3, Isaiah 22:12
5If I forget thee, O Ierusalem, let my right hand forget to play.
Jeremiah 51:50, Jeremiah 51:50, Daniel 6:10, Daniel 6:11, Zechariah 11:17
6If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth: yea, if I preferre not Ierusalem to my chiefe ioy.
Ezekiel 3:26, Ezekiel 3:26, Psalms 22:15, Psalms 22:15, Job 29:10
7Remember the children of Edom, O Lord, in the day of Ierusalem, which saide, Rase it, rase it to the foundation thereof.
Lamentations 4:21, Lamentations 4:22, Lamentations 4:21, Lamentations 4:22, Jeremiah 49:7
8O daughter of Babel, worthy to be destroyed, blessed shall he be that rewardeth thee, as thou hast serued vs.
Revelation 18:6, Revelation 18:6, Jeremiah 25:12, Jeremiah 25:14, Jeremiah 25:12
9Blessed shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy children against the stones.
Isaiah 13:16, Isaiah 13:16, Nahum 3:10, Hosea 13:16, Nahum 3:10

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The hundred and thirty-seventh psalm is an intense and sorrowful lament of the exiles in Babylon. It opens with the visceral image of displacement: "By the waters of Babylon, there...

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