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.
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. 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;
we hanged. Willows were so plentiful at Babylon, on the banks of the Euphrates, that Isaiah calls it "the brook or river of willows." 33:2; 81:2; Isa 24:8; Eze 26:13; Am 8:10; Re 18:22;
For there. 123:3,4; La 2:15,16;
a song. Heb. the words of a song. wasted us. Heb. laid us on heaps. 79:1; Ne 4:2; Jer 9:11; 26:18; Mic 3:12; Lu 21:6;
the songs of Zion. 9:14; 65:1; 1Ch 15:27; 16:7; Isa 35:10; 51:11; Jer 31:12,13; Re 14:1-3;
How shall. Ec 3:4; Isa 22:12; La 5:14,15; Ho 9:4; Am 8:3;
strange land. Heb. land of a stranger. Isa 49:21;
I forget. 84:1,2,10; 102:13,14; 122:5-9; Ne 1:2-4; 2:2,3; Isa 62:1,6,7; Jer 51:50; Da 6:10,11;
let my right. Zec 11:17;
let my tongue. 22:15; Isa 41:17; La 4:4; Eze 3:26;
if I prefer. 84:10; Mt 6:33; Ac 20:24; Php 1:20; 1Th 3:7-9;
my chief joy. Heb. the head of my joy.
Remember. 74:18; 79:8-12; Ex 17:14; 1Sa 15:2; Ho 7:2;
the children. Isa 63:1-6; Jer 49:7-22; La 4:21,22; Eze 25:12-14; Ob 1:10-14,18-21;
daughter. Isa 47:1-5; Jer 50:42; 51:33; Zec 2:7;
who art. Isa 13:1-22; 14:4-24; 21:1; 47:1; Jer 25:12-14; 50:1-51:64|; Re 14:8-11; 17:1-18; 18:6;
destroyed. Heb. wasted. happy. 149:6-9; Isa 13:3-5; 44:28; Re 17:5,6,14; 18:6,20;
rewardeth. etc. Heb. recompenseth unto thee thy deed which thou didst unto us. Jer 50:15-29; Re 18:6;
and dasheth. Isa 13:16; Ho 10:14; 13:16;