Psalms 137:1 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

KJV

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ASV

By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion.

WEB

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

YLT

By rivers of Babylon--There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

DBT

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

38 verses on the floor

Psalms 126:5
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Ezekiel 1:1
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
Nehemiah 1:4
And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
Ezekiel 3:15
Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel–abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.
Lamentations 3:48
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Words5

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 137:1EZE 1:1 EZE 11:24
PSA 137:1EZE 1:1 REV 19:11
PSA 137:1EZE 1:1 MAT 3:16
PSA 137:1EZE 1:1 ACT 7:56
PSA 137:1EZE 1:1 EZE 10:20
PSA 137:1EZE 1:3 EZE 3:22
PSA 137:1EZE 1:3 EZE 3:14
PSA 137:1EZE 3:15 JOB 2:13

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