Psalms 137:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. ”

Psalms 137:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By the rivers of Babylon - The streams, the water-courses, the rivulets. There was properly only one river flowing through Babylon - the Euphrates; but the city was watered, as Damascus now is, b...
Psalms 137:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

By the rivers of Babylon, there we (a) sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. (a) That is, we abode a long time, and even though the country was pleasant, yet it could not stay our tears,...
Psalms 137:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Psalms 137:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Babylon. The Psalm is anonymous, and probably by Hezekiah. No need to refer it to post-exilic times. The Psalm reads as though it were. reminiscence of past experience in Babylon, and. contrast wit...
Psalms 137:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1. By the rivers of Babylon (178) there we sat down I have elsewhere said, that it is a great mistake to suppose that it is David who here prophetically apprises the people of God of the...
Psalms 137:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. By the rivers of Babylon - These might have been the Tigris and Euphrates, or their branches, or streams that flowe...
Psalms 137:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The constancy of the Jews in captivity. The prophet curseth Edom and Babel. THIS melancholy song, says Mr. Mudge, was composed by one of the captives, just upon their coming to Babylon: In it the...
Psalms 137:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. Psalms 137:1-9 .-Israel's sad state in Babylon; her inability to sing Zion's songs in a strange land: her i...
Psalms 137:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Rivers of Babylon ] The river was the Euphrates, from which branched off a network of canals, on whose banks grew the willows here referred to. These were a species of poplar.
Psalms 137:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

By the rivers ... — Mentioned as the characteristic feature of the country, as we say “among the mountains of Wales.” The canals which irrigated Babylonia made it what an ancient writer called it, t...
Psalms 137:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 137:1-9 THE captivity is past, as the tenses in Psalms 137:1-3 show, and as is manifest from the very fact that its miseries have become themes for a psalm. Grief must be somewhat removed...
Psalms 137:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Psalms 137:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 fa...
Psalms 137:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS There can be but little question concerning the date of this Psalm: speaking, as it doth at the opening of it, of Babylon, it seems very plainly to refer to the time of the Church's captivi...
Psalms 137:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down ,.... If by Babylon is meant the country, then the rivers of it are Chebar, Ulai, Tigris, Euphrates, and others; see Ezekiel 1:1 ; but if the city itself...
Psalms 137:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. Ver. 1. By the rivers of Babylon ] Tigris and Euphrates; for the land of Shinar (where Babel was founded, and af...
Psalms 137:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

By the rivers of Babylon Of the city, or rather of the territory of Babylon, in which there were many rivers, as Euphrates, which also was divided into several streams or rivulets, and Tigris, and...
Psalms 137:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sorrows of Captivity. 1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 We...
Psalms 137:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

PSALM 137 THE ARGUMENT The penman of this Psalm is uncertain; the occasion of it was unquestionably the consideration of the Babylonish captivity; and it seems to have been composed either during t...
Psalms 137:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 captivit...
Psalms 137:1 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 137:1-19 . 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 riv...
Psalms 137:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 Hagg...
Psalms 137:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 137:1-6 ). 1. Their sorrow had reference to the loss...
Psalms 137:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 th...
Psalms 137:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

By the rivers of Babylon, along the banks of which many of the Jews had settled for the period of the captivity, there we sat down, their deep grief having driven them away into the solitude of the...
Psalms 137:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 10:2 ; Daniel 10:3 ; Daniel 9:3 ; Ezekiel 1:1 ; Ezekiel 3:15 ; Ezra 8:21 ; Ezra 8:31 ; Genesis 2:10-14 ; Isaiah 66:10 ; Jeremiah 13:17 ; Jeremiah 13:18 ; Jeremiah 15:17 ; Jeremiah...
Psalms 137:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Sat — The usual posture of mourners.

Psalms 137:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 137:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 137:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 137:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 137:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 137:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 137:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 137:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 137:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 137:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 137:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 137:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 137:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 137:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 137:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 137:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 137:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 137:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 137:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 137:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 137:1 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 137:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 137:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 137:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 137:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 137:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 137:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes