Psalms Chapter 137 verse 2 Holy Bible
Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps.
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Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside.
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We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
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We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
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On the willows in the midst of it, We hung up our harps.
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On willows in its midst we hung our harps.
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Psalms 137 : 2 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. The superfluous "harps" were "hung" up upon the trees that grew by the watercourses. These are called "willows," or, according to some, "poplars," but were probably of a different species from any of the trees that grew in Palestine. The chief Babylonian tree was the palm, which grew in the greatest luxuriance along the courses of all the streams (Herod., 1:193; Atom Man., 24:3; Zosim., 3. pp. 173-179). Tamarisks, poplars, and acacias were also common, but true "willows" hardly appear to have ever been a product of the country. The 'arabah of our author was probably either a poplar or a tamarisk.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Willows.--It is perhaps not necessary to attempt to identify the trees mentioned in this verse, since the touching picture may only be a poetical way of expressing the silence during the exile of all the religious and festal songs. The 'ereb' is certainly not the willow, a tree not found in Babylonia, but the poplar (Populus Euphraticus).
