¹⁵ I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who lived by the River Chebar.^[a] And I sat there among them, stunned, for seven days.^(A)

Psalm 137

Lament over the Destruction of Jerusalem

¹³ They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.^(A)

The Vision of the Chariot

1 In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the River Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.^(A)

¹⁰ When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and sorrowful lamentation, and he observed a time of mourning for his father seven days.^(A)

¹⁵ The cherubim rose up. These were the living creatures that I saw by the River Chebar.

False Prophets of Hope Denounced

⁹ Concerning the prophets:

²³ So I rose up and went out into the valley, and the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory that I had seen by the River Chebar, and I fell on my face.^(A)

³ The^[a] vision I saw was like the vision that I had seen when he came to destroy the city and^[b] like the vision that I had seen by the River Chebar, and I fell upon my face.^(A)