Psalms 137:1-2

137:1

[A.M. cir. 3463. B.C. cir. 541. (Title.)]

The author of this beautiful and affecting elegy is unknown, but the occasion is evident; and it was most probably composed during, or near the close of, the captivity.

rivers <05104> [the rivers.]

[there sat.]

weep <01058> [we wept.]

137:2

hang <08518> [we hanged.]

Willows were so plentiful at Babylon, on the banks of the Euphrates, that Isaiah calls it "the brook or river of willows."