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 with previous joys in Zion; not, as during or after the seventy years, or an experience of. then present exile in Babylon. The writer is in Jerusalem after an absence not of long duration; and is full of joy. The post-exilic captives were full of sorrow on their return (Ezra 3:12.Haggai 2:3; Haggai 2:3). These exiles had obeyed Isaiah '. call (Isaiah 48:20. Compare Psa 43:14-21).
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Psalms 137:1
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.