Though there is no title prefixed to this beautiful psalm, and no
direct intimation as to the occasion on which it was composed, yet
there can be no doubt as to the circumstances in which it was writt...
Israel's minstrels were silent in the land of exile, when they were
tauntingly bidden to display their skill for the amusement of their
captors (Psalms 137:1-3). How could they sing Jehovah's songs in...
CXXXVII.
This fine song, blended as it is of tears and fire, with its plaintive
opening and its vindictive close, is one of the clearest records left
in Hebrew literature of the captivity, but whether...
INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 137
The occasion of this psalm was the captivity of the Jews in Babylon,
and the treatment they met with there; either as foreseen, or as now
endured. Aben Ezra ascribes this ps...
_A.M. 3434. B.C. 570._
It is uncertain who was the author of this Psalm, but probably it was
written by one of the captives, either just upon their coming to
Babylon, or, at least, during the time of...