Psalms 137:6

1 Thessalonians 3:7-9; Acts 20:24; Ezekiel 3:26; Isaiah 41:17; Lamentations 4:4; Matthew 6:33; Philippians 1:20; Psalms 22:15; Psalms 84:10

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If I do not remember thee - Equivalent to, “If I forget thee.” If I ever fail to remember thee; if I shall ever act as if I had forgotten thee. S...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my (e) chief joy. (e) The decay of God's re...
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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. Let my tongue cleave - Let me...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Let my right hand forget her cunning, &c.— There is nothing for her cunning in the original. The plain meaning is, "May my right hand forget...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. If I do not remember t...
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...
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Loyalty in Adversity Psalms 137:1-9 It seems as if the exiles had withdrawn from the city, with its distractions, to some natural retreat besid...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

I hope the Lord's Israel at all times feels somewhat of this same spirit. It is blessed to feel the love of Jesus in seasons when Jesus is opposed, a...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If I do not remember thee ,.... In prayer, in discourse, in conversation; this is the same as before, to forget, repeated for the confirmation of it...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. Ver. 6. If I do not remembe...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 137:5-6 . If I forget thee, O Jerusalem If I do not retain a deep and sorrowful sense of thy desolations, though never so far removed from...
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

Remember thee with affection and sympathy, so as to damp my joys. Cleave to the roof of my mouth; be made uncapable of singing, or speaking, or m...
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

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. Recollection and preference of the Church of Christ I. The object of recol...
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

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, in an agony of thirst and suffering; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chi...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

If — If I do not value Jerusalem's prosperity more than all other delights.

⁶ If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chiefc joy.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 137:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake'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

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

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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