Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Psalms 137:3
A song] lit. 'the words of a song.' Sing us, etc.] probably in mockery. Hebrew music would not be so good as Babylonian.
A song] lit. 'the words of a song.' Sing us, etc.] probably in mockery. Hebrew music would not be so good as Babylonian.
Verse Psalms 137:3. _THEY THAT CARRIED US AWAY CAPTIVE REQUIRED OF US A_ _SONG_] This was as _unreasonable_ as it was _insulting_. How could they who had reduced us to slavery, and dragged us in chai...
FOR THERE THEY THAT CARRIED US AWAY CAPTIVE - The Babylonians. REQUIRED OF US A SONG - Asked of us a song. The word does not express the idea of compulsion or force. Margin, as in Hebrew, words of a s...
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...
THEY THAT CARRIED US AWAY: i.e. the captives of Judah, as those of Israel had been by Shalmaneser and Sargon. The latter took away only 27,280 from Samaria. See note on 1 Chronicles 5:6. and App-67....
The silence of sacred song in the sorrow of exile....
_For there_&c. The reason why their harps were silent. It might have been expected that they would soothe their sorrow with plaintive music; but the heartless demand of their captors made it impossibl...
AND THEY THAT WASTED US, &C.— Mudge renders this clause, _And our destroyers' mirth._...
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...
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. FOR THERE THEY THAT CARRIED US AWAY CAPTIV...
137:3 song; (c-13) Lit. 'words of song.' wail (d-19) Or 'our tormentors.'...
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...
A SONG. — See margin. The expression is generally regarded as pleonastic, but may be explained as in Psalms 105:27, where see Note. Perhaps “some lyric thing” would express the original. No doubt it i...
כִּ֤י שָׁ֨ם שְֽׁאֵל֪וּנוּ שֹׁובֵ֡ינוּ דִּבְרֵי ־שִׁ֭יר...
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...
For there they that carried us away captive (c) required of us a song; and they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion. (c) The Babylonians speak thus in...
God's people are still subject to insult; but it is impossible to feel warmth at all times in the Lord's service where scoffers are. Sometimes, indeed, a holy indignation, and a zeal for Jesus, give f...
3._Then they that carried us away captive, etc. _We may be certain that the Israelites were treated with cruel severity under this barbarous tyranny to which they were subjected. And the worst afflict...
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...
FOR THERE THEY THAT CARRIED US AWAY CAPTIVE REQUIRED OF US A SONG,.... Or, "words of a song" z. To repeat the words of one of the songs of Zion, as it is afterwards expressed: this the Babylonians did...
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion. Ver. 3. For there … they required of u...
_There they that carried us away_ Our new masters, who had made us their slaves, and carried us captives out of our own land; _required of us a song_ דברי שׁיר, _the words of a song:_ in the LXX., λογ...
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song, either out of curiosity or in derision; AND THEY WASTED US, those who had inflicted pain upon them, their oppressors, REQUIRED OF US...
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...
A SONG: _ Heb._ the words of a song WASTED US: _ Heb._ laid us on heaps...
1-4 Their enemies had carried the Jews captive from their own land. To complete their woes, they insulted over them; they required of them mirth and a song. This was very barbarous; also profane, for...
Such songs as you used to sing in the temple at Zion; which they required either out of curiosity, or to delight their ears, or rather by way of scoffing and insultation over them, and their temple an...
Psalms 137:3 captive H7617 (H8802) asked H7592 (H8804) song H1697 H7892 plundered H8437 mirth H8057 Sing...
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...
_Sing us one of the songs of Zion._ THE PHASES OF PSALMODY The noblest employment of which the nature of man is capable is the worship of his Maker. One of the elements of the worship is the renditi...
_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...
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...
1 Chronicles 15:27; 1 Chronicles 16:7; Isaiah 35:10; Isaiah 51:11;...
A song — Such songs as you used to sing in the temple of Zion....