Psalms 137:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

Navigate

Chapter 137

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

²We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

Psalms 137:2 —

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.

← Psalms 137:1 Psalms 137:3 →

Original word meaning

— of 4

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 24:8
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
Ezekiel 26:13
And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
Psalms 81:2
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
Revelation 18:22
And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

Topics

Al-Taschith Alamoth Armory Art Botany Choruses Church Citizens

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

We have here the daughter of Zion covered with a cloud, and dwelling with the daughter of Babylon; the people of God in tears, but sowing in tears. Observe, I. The mournful posture they were in as to their affairs and as to their spirits. 1. They were posted by the rivers of Babylon, in a strange land, a great way from their own country, whence they were brought as prisoners of war. The land of Ba…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. upon the willows--which may have grown there then, if not now; as the palm, which was once common, is now rare in Palestine.