Psalms 137:1

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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 Euphrate...
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 count...
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

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. reminiscenc...
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 he...
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 E...
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 capt...
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 inabi...
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. Th...
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...
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 Bab...
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Loyalty in Adversity Psalms 137:1-9 It seems as if the exiles had withdrawn from the city, with its distractions, to some natural retreat besid...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

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 pl...
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...
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 t...
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...
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

PSALM 137 THE ARGUMENT The penman of this Psalm is uncertain; the occasion of it was unquestionably the consideration of the Babylonish captivity;...
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 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

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 grie...
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...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Sat — The usual posture of mourners.

¹ By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 137:1

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

Coke's Commentary on the Holy 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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 137:1