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title: "Wesley"
description: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. Sat — The usual posture of mourners. We hanged our harps upon the will"
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url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/wesleys-explanatory-notes/psalms/137"
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By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
*Sat* — The usual posture of mourners.

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
*Harps* — Harps are here put for all instruments of musick.

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
*A song* — Such songs as you used to sing in the temple of Zion.

How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?
*The Lord's* — Those songs which were appointed by God to be sung only in his service.

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
*If* — If I do not value Jerusalem's prosperity more than all other delights.

Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
*The day* — In the time of its destruction.

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
*Happy* — As being God's instrument to vindicate his honour, and execute his just judgments.

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