Psalms 137:3

And they that wasted us, &c.— Mudge renders this clause, And our destroyers' mirth.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3. Then they that carried us away captive, etc. We may be certain that the Israelites were treated with cruel severity under this barbaro...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 son...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A lifelike memorial of the bitter experiences of exile concluding with ( a ) a strong expression of patriotism, and ( b ) an outburst of hatred again...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A song ] lit. 'the words of a song.' Sing us, etc.] probably in mockery. Hebrew music would not be so good as Babylonian.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
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...
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Loyalty in Adversity Psalms 137:1-9 It seems as if the exiles had withdrawn from the city, with its distractions, to some natural retreat besid...
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 gr...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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, indee...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 son...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sorrows of Captivity. 1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat do...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 scof...
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 h...
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 m...
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...
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-...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 Mak...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION " THE most direct and striking reminiscence of the Babylonish exile in the whole Psalter" (Professor Alexander). The psalm divides i...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 inclu...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 inflic...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 15:27 ; 1 Chronicles 16:7 ; Isaiah 35:10 ; Isaiah 51:11 ; Jeremiah 26:18 ; Jeremiah 31:12 ; Jeremiah 31:13 ; Jeremiah 9:11 ; La...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A song — Such songs as you used to sing in the temple of Zion.

³ For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song;a and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 137:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 137:3