Psalm 137:1
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By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion. (NASB ©1995)

Nehemiah 1:4 When I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for days; and I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Ezekiel 1:1 Now it came about in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was by the river Chebar among the exiles, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.

Ezekiel 1:3 the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there the hand of the LORD came upon him.) (NASB ©1995)


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

1 The constancy of the Jews in captivity
7 The prophet curses Edom and Babel

A.M. cir. 3463. B.C. cir 541. 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.

the rivers Ge 2:10-14 Ezr 8:21,31 Eze 1:1

there sat Ne 1:3,4 2:3 Job 2:12,13 Jer 13:17,18 15:17 La 2:10 Eze 3:15

we wept Ps 42:4 102:9-14 Isa 66:10 Jer 51:50,51 La 1:16 2:11,18 3:48,51 Da 9:3 10:2,3 Lu 19:41 Re 11:3

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