Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 137:8
Happy — As being God's instrument to vindicate his honour, and execute his just judgments.
Happy — As being God's instrument to vindicate his honour, and execute his just judgments.
Verse Psalms 137:8. _O DAUGHTER OF BABYLON, WHO ART TO BE DESTROYED_] Or, _O_ _thou daughter of Babylon the destroyer_, or, _who art to be ruined_. In being reduced under the empire of the Persians,...
O DAUGHTER OF BABYLON - That is, Babylon itself; the city of Babylon. On the word “daughter” as thus used, see the notes at Isaiah 1:8. WHO ART TO BE DESTROYED - Certainly to be destroyed; of whose de...
Psalms 137 Remembering the Exile This Psalm is in remembrance of the Babylonian captivity written by an unknown person. Some have named Jeremiah, but he was not in Babylon. The Psalm expresseth the...
CXXXVII. THE BITTER MEMORY OF BABYLON. The vivid picture of the exiles in their home-sickness, the mockery of their foreign masters, their love for Zion, the mention of Edom, and the savage thirst for...
TO BE DESTROYED. Hezekiah must have been familiar with Isaiah's prophecies, who employs the very words of verses: Psalms 137:8; Psalms 137:9. (Isaiah 13:6;...
The Psalmist's love for Jerusalem leads him to invoke vengeance on her enemies: upon Edom for the unbrotherly spite which rejoiced at her destruction; upon Babylon, for having accomplished that destru...
_O daughter of Babylon_ The city of Babylon personified. _who art to be destroyed_ The most obvious translation is that of R.V. marg., that art laid waste. So Aq. and Jerome, _vastata_. But the follow...
O DAUGHTER OF BABYLON, &C.— _O daughter of Babylon, the destroyed;_ [not _Babylon the proud,_ as she now is; but Babylon the destroyed, for so she certainly shall be, when it comes to her turn;] _How...
PSALMS 137 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Returned Levite's Memories of Babylon, Apostrophe to Jerusalem, and Imprecations on Edom and on Babylon. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 137:1-3, A Returned Captive's Reco...
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. O DAUGHTER OF BABYLON, WHO ART TO BE DESTROYED - literally, 'who art destroyed.;' i:e....
A lifelike memorial of the bitter experiences of exile concluding with (_a_) a strong expression of patriotism, and (_b_) an outburst of hatred against the enemies of Jerusalem. Probably written soon...
WHO ART TO BE DESTROYED] i.e. doomed to destruction....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ BY THE RIVERS IN BABYLON PSALMS 137 Jesus said, "You have heard that people used to say, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, Do not fig...
DAUGHTER OF BABYLON — i.e., Babylon itself. (See Psalms 9:14, Note.) WHO ART TO BE DESTROYED. — Considerable doubt attaches to the meaning of the Hebrew word here. Our version is that of Theodotion....
בַּת ־בָּבֶ֗ל הַ שְּׁד֫וּדָ֥ה אַשְׁרֵ֥י שֶׁ י
Psalms 137:1 THE captivity is past, as the tenses in Psalms 137:1 show, and as is manifest from the very fact that its miseries have become themes for a psalm. Grief must be somewhat removed before it...
LOYALTY IN ADVERSITY Psalms 137:1-9 It seems as if the exiles had withdrawn from the city, with its distractions, to some natural retreat beside the Euphrates. They had brought their harps with t...
This is a song of memory. From the midst of the circumstances of restoration the singer looks back to days of captivity and sorrow. The picture is graphic. Babylon was far from their own land, and far...
_Repay. Taking me under his protection, (St. Chrysostom) he will punish my oppressors; or he has done it already. (Calmet) --- Hands. Rescue me from the oppression of my temporal and spiritual enemies...
These words are both a prayer and a prophecy. Edom is the seed of Esau, and as such there was, and is, and ever will be, the same hatred subsisting. But the Church looketh forward to the hour, when Ed...
8._O daughter of Babylon _(187) _laid waste! _The Psalmist discerns the coming judgment of God, though not yet apparent, by the eye of faith, as the Apostle well calls faith “the beholding of things n...
Psalms 137 refers, and alone does to give the full history of Israel's sorrows to Babylon, which has only a mystic fulfillment in the latter days, but has its importance, because at that time was the...
O DAUGHTER OF BABYLON, WHO ART TO BE DESTROYED,.... By the determinate counsel and decree of God, and according to divine predictions; see Jeremiah 50:1; so mystical Babylon, antichrist, and the man o...
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy [shall he be], that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Ver. 8. _That art to be destroyed_] _Spoliatrix,_ saith the Syriac, Isaiah 33:1 . _ H...
_O daughter of Babylon_ By which he understands the city and empire of Babylon, and the people thereof, _who art to be destroyed_ Who by God's righteous and irrevocable sentence, art devoted to certai...
SONG OF GRIEF OF THE CAPTIVE JEWS. The unknown poet here records the deep grief and mourning of the Jews during the Babylonian captivity and includes a prayer for the destruction of their enemies, si...
DESTROYED: _ Heb._ wasted THAT REWARDETH THEE, AS THOU HAST SERVED US: _ Heb._ that recompenseth unto thee thy deed which thou didst to us...
5-9 What we love, we love to think of. Those that rejoice in God, for his sake make Jerusalem their joy. They stedfastly resolved to keep up this affection. When suffering, we should recollect with g...
DAUGHTER OF BABYLON; by which he understands the city and empire of Babylon, and the people thereof. WHO ART TO BE DESTROYED; who art by God's righteous and irrevocable sentence devoted to certain des...
Psalms 137:8 daughter H1323 Babylon H894 destroyed H7703 (H8803) Happy H835 repays H7999 (H8762) served H1580 ...
Psalms 137:1. _By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof._ Babylon was full of canals and rivers; t...
CONTENTS: Lamentation over the sad condition of God's people in captivity. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who are glad at the calamities that sometimes in God's providence come to His people, sh...
This psalm has no title, but it was evidently composed in Babylon; and it would seem from the latter part, only a little while before Cyrus took the city. It was probably composed by the prophet Hagga...
_Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem._ IMPRECATION AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH 1. False brethren are the chief instruments of persecution of the true members of the...
_By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea,_ we wept. THE TEARS OF MEMORY AND THE CRY FOR VENGEANCE I. The tears of memory (Psalms 137:1). 1. Their sorrow had reference to the loss of the hi...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 137:1. This community lament remembers the Babylonian captivity. It provides words by which the returned exiles can express their loyalty to Jerusalem and pray that God woul...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 137:7 The recollection of these hurtful taunts leads to a prayer that God will REMEMBER the deeds of his people’s enemies. These are represented here by the EDOMITES and the...
INTRODUCTION “There can be no doubt whatever,” says Perowne, “as to the time when this Psalm was written. It expresses the feeling of an exile who has but just returned from the land of his captivity....
EXPOSITION "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 unhapp...
Psa 137:1-9 is a psalm of captivity written many years after David's time, written by one of those who were captive in Babylon. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we remem...
Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 13:3; Isaiah 14:4; Isaiah 21:1; Isaiah 44:28;...