By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
A.M. cir.
the rivers
Genesis 2:10-14 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there …
Ezra 8:21,31 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might …
Ezekiel 1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in …
there sat
Nehemiah 1:3,4 And they said to me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there …
Nehemiah 2:3 And said to the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not …
Job 2:12,13 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they …
Jeremiah 13:17,18 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places …
Jeremiah 15:17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone …
Lamentations 2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, and keep silence: …
Ezekiel 3:15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelled by …
we wept
Psalm 42:4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had …
Psalm 102:9-14 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping…
Isaiah 66:10 Rejoice you with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that love …
Jeremiah 51:50,51 You that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember …
Lamentations 1:16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because …
Lamentations 2:11,18 My eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured …
Lamentations 3:48,51 My eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the …
Daniel 9:3 And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, …
Daniel 10:2,3 In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks…
Luke 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Revelation 11:3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy …
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
we hanged. Willows were so plentiful at Babylon on the banks of the Euphrates, that Isaiah calls it the brook or river of willows.
Psalm 33:2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing to him with the psaltery and an instrument …
Psalm 81:2 Take a psalm, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant harp with …
Isaiah 24:8 The mirth of tabrets ceases, the noise of them that rejoice ends, …
Ezekiel 26:13 And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound …
Amos 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into …
Revelation 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, …
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.
for there
Psalm 123:3,4 Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy on us: for we are exceedingly …
Lamentations 2:15,16 All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their …
a song. Heb. the words of a song
wasted us. Heb. laid us on heaps
Psalm 79:1 O God, the heathen are come into your inheritance; your holy temple …
Nehemiah 4:2 And he spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, …
Jeremiah 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will …
Jeremiah 26:18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, …
Micah 3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem …
Luke 21:6 As for these things which you behold, the days will come, in the …
the song of Zion
Psalm 9:14 That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter …
Psalm 65:1 Praise waits for you, O God, in Sion: and to you shall the vow be performed.
1 Chronicles 15:27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites …
1 Chronicles 16:7 Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD …
Isaiah 35:10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with …
Isaiah 51:11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing …
Jeremiah 31:12,13 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall …
Revelation 14:1-3 And I looked, and, see, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with …
How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
I forget
Psalm 84:1,2,10 How amiable are your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!…
Psalm 102:13,14 You shall arise, and have mercy on Zion: for the time to favor her, …
Psalm 122:5-9 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David…
Nehemiah 1:2-4 That Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men of Judah; …
Nehemiah 2:2,3 Why the king said to me, Why is your countenance sad, seeing you …
Isaiah 62:1,6,7 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake …
Jeremiah 51:50 You that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember …
Daniel 6:10,11 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his …
let my right
Zechariah 11:17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaves the flock! the sword shall be …
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.
Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
remember
Psalm 74:18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the …
Psalm 79:8-12 O remember not against us former iniquities: let your tender mercies …
Exodus 17:14 And the LORD said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, …
1 Samuel 15:2 Thus said the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to …
Hosea 7:2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: …
the children
Isaiah 63:1-6 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? …
Jeremiah 49:7 Concerning Edom, thus said the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in …
Lamentations 4:21,22 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of …
Ezekiel 25:12-14 Thus said the Lord GOD; Because that Edom has dealt against the house …
Obadiah 1:10 For your violence against your brother Jacob shame shall cover you, …
raise it. Heb. make bare
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
daughter
Isaiah 47:1-5 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit …
Jeremiah 50:41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and …
Jeremiah 52:33 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread …
Zechariah 2:7 Deliver yourself, O Zion, that dwell with the daughter of Babylon.
who art
Isaiah 13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
Isaiah 14:4-24 That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, …
Isaiah 21:1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass …
Isaiah 47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit …
Jeremiah 25:12-14 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that …
Jeremiah 50:1 The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land …
Jeremiah 51:1 Thus said the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and …
Revelation 14:8-11 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, …
Revelation 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, …
Revelation 18:6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double to her double according …
destroyed. Heb. wasted
happy
Psalm 149:6-9 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword …
Isaiah 13:3-5 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty …
Isaiah 44:28 That said of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: …
Revelation 17:5,6,14 And on her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, …
Revelation 18:6,20 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double to her double according …
rewardeth. etc. Heb. recompenseth unto thee thy deed which thou didst unto us
Jeremiah 50:15-29 Shout against her round about: she has given her hand: her foundations …
Revelation 18:6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double to her double according …
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
