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Lament over the Destruction of Jerusalem

137 [a]By the waters[b] of Babylon,
there we sat down and wept,
    when we remembered Zion.

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Footnotes

  1. 137 This psalm breathes the spirit of sadness and homesickness of the Israelite in exile in Babylon.
  2. Psalm 137:1 Heb streams

15 and I came to the exiles at Tel-a′bib, who dwelt by the river Chebar.[a] And I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 3:15 Heb Chebar, and to where they dwelt. Another reading is Chebar, and I sat where they sat

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