“ We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. ”
We hanged our harps upon the willows - The harps once used to accompany the songs of praise and the service of God in the temple; the harps with which they had sought to beguile their weary hours...
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst (b) thereof. (b) That is, of that country.
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...
2. We hanged our harps upon the willows (180) He deplores the suspension of the songs of praise, which God had enjoined in his Temple. The Levites were set over the department of singing, a...
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. We hanged our harps upon the willows - The ערבים arabim or willows were very plentiful in Babylon. The great quantity of them that were on t...
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof - in the midst of the land of Babylon. We no longer could use our harps, w...
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...
Willows. — It is perhaps not necessary to attempt to identify the trees mentioned in this verse, since the touching picture may only be a poetical way of expressing the silence during the exile of...
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...
Loyalty in Adversity Psalms 137:1-9 It seems as if the exiles had withdrawn from the city, with its distractions, to some natural retreat beside the Euphrates.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...
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...
We may form some idea of a poor captive minstrel, hanging up his harp as useless, by the representation of the far more deplorable state of an enslaved soul, led away captive by the enemy, or fallen...
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. These were musical instruments, used in the temple service by the Levites, who seem to be the persons here speaking; who took care of them...
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. Ver. 2. We hanged our harps ] Harps we had, and knew how to handle them (the Jews were famous artists, noted for their skill, specially i...
We hanged our harps upon the willows, in the midst thereof. These are, not without great probability, supposed to be the words of some holy Levites, who had been accustomed to music, both vocal and...
The Sorrows of Captivity. 1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 We...
These are, not without great probability, supposed to be the words of some holy Levites, who had been accustomed to music, both vocal and instrumental, in the service of the temple. Harps are here...
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 137:1-19 . 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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Amos 8:10 ; Ezekiel 26:13 ; Isaiah 24:8 ; Psalms 33:2 ; Psalms 81:2 ; Revelation 18:22
Harps — Harps are here put for all instruments of musick.