E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 137:4
the LORD'S. Hebrew. Jehovah. s. App-4 . strange = foreigner's. read more
시편 137:3-4 Krv
E.W. Bullinger
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Psalms 137:4
CURSES UPON THEMSELVESTheir extremely distasteful assignment of entertaining their captors and amusing them precipitated the bitter thoughts of the next three verses."How shall we sing Jehovah's songIn a foreign land?If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,Let my right hand forget her skill.Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,If I remember thee not;If I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy."There was indeed a remnant of true Israelites, the faithful believers in God, among the multitudes of... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 137:3
Psalms 137:3. And they that wasted us, &c.— Mudge renders this clause, And our destroyers' mirth. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 137:3
3, 4. Whether the request was in curiosity or derision, the answer intimates that a compliance was incongruous with their mournful feelings ( :-). read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 137:1-4
1. Sorrow in exile 137:1-4 read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 137:1-9
Psalms 137The psalmist mourned the plight of the exiled Israelites. He expressed strong love for Zion and strong hatred for Israel’s enemies. This is an imprecatory psalm. [Note: See the appendix in VanGemeren, pp. 830-32, on imprecations in the psalms, and Day, "The Imprecatory . . .," pp. 173-76.] "This psalm is better known, probably because it is one of the few psalms which contain a certain and explicit historical reference. It invites narrative specificity. It clearly comes out of the... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 137:2-4
The exiles could not bring themselves to sing about Zion even when their Babylonian neighbors urged them to sing songs about their native land. Normally this would have brought back pleasant memories, but the memories broke the Israelites’ hearts. Their songs were about the Lord. The exiles could not sing at all, so they hung their harps on the poplar trees read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 137:1-9
A lifelike memorial of the bitter experiences of exile concluding with (a) a strong expression of patriotism, and (b) an outburst of hatred against the enemies of Jerusalem. Probably written soon after the exile.1. 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. These were a species of poplar.2. Harps] the Kinnor was the most ancient kind of harp, properly a lyre. 3. A song] lit. ’the words of a... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 137:3
(3) 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 lyric thing” would express the original. No doubt it is a Levite who is requested to sing.They that wasted us.—A peculiar Hebrew word which the LXX. and Vulg. take as synonymous with the verb in the first clause. The modern explanation, “they that make us howl,” is far preferable. Those whose oppression had raised the wild Oriental scream of... read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 137:3
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 Samaria. See note on 1 Chronicles 5:6 ; and App-67 . read more