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Psalms Chapter 137

Noyes
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PSALMS

Psalms 137

1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion.
Ezekiel 1:1, Ezekiel 1:1, Ezekiel 3:15, Ezekiel 3:15, Luke 19:41
2We hung our harps on the willows in the midst thereof.
Isaiah 24:8, Ezekiel 26:13, Isaiah 24:8, Ezekiel 26:13, Psalms 81:2
3For there they who carried us away captive required of us a song; They who wasted us required of us mirth: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
Luke 21:6, Luke 21:6, Lamentations 2:15, Lamentations 2:16, Micah 3:12
4How shall we sing the LORD’S song In a strange land?
Amos 8:3, Isaiah 22:12, Hosea 9:4, Amos 8:3, Isaiah 22:12
5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning!
Jeremiah 51:50, Jeremiah 51:50, Daniel 6:10, Daniel 6:11, Zechariah 11:17
6If I do not remember thee, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy!
Ezekiel 3:26, Ezekiel 3:26, Psalms 22:15, Psalms 22:15, Job 29:10
7Remember, O LORD! against the children of Edom The day of the calamity of Jerusalem! Who said, "Raze it, Raze it to its foundations!"
Lamentations 4:21, Lamentations 4:22, Lamentations 4:21, Lamentations 4:22, Jeremiah 49:7
8O daughter of Babylon, thou destroyer! Happy be he who requiteth thee As thou hast dealt with us!
Revelation 18:6, Revelation 18:6, Jeremiah 25:12, Jeremiah 25:14, Jeremiah 25:12
9Happy be he who seizeth thy little ones And dasheth them 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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