1. Bountiful alike to our bodily and spiritual wants, He filleth all things living with plenteousness!
2. The constancy of the Jewish captives. in their affection for
Jerusalem.
3. Sitting on the ground was a posture denoting deep distress.( Job 2. 13; Lam. 2. 10.)
4. Its skill on the harp.
5." Above my chief joy;" if I do not make Jerusalem my chief subject of joy. 6. The Edomites had aided the Chaldeans in the destruction of
Jerusalem. ( Obadiah 10.)
7." Who art to be destroyed."
Day 28.
THE PSALMS.
25 Who giveth food to all flesh( 1) for his mercy endureth for ever.
26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.
27 O give thanks unto the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.
PSALM 137.( R) Super flumina.
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the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept( 3): when we remembered thee, O Sion.
2 As for our harps, we hanged them up: upon the trees that are therein.
3 For they that led us away captive required of us then a song, and melody, in our heaviness: Sing us one of the songs of Sion.
4 How shall we sing the Lord's song: in a strange land?
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem: let my right hand forget her cunning( 4).
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth: yea, if I prefer not Jerusalem in my mirth( 5).
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7 Remember the children of Edom, O Lord, in the day of Jerusalem( 6): how they said, Down with it, down with it, even to the ground.
80 daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery( 7): yea, happy shall he be that rewardeth thee, as thou hast served us.
R. The author of this noble and affecting Psalm is unknown; it is a deep lament on the mournful condition of the Jews. With inexpressible pathos are we transported to Babylon, and there behold the broken- hearted Hebrew captive, weeping on the banks of the Euphrates, his eyes fixed on the unstrung harp pendant on the willows that grow there, his thoughts, with sad remembrance, dwelling on the pleasant banks of Jordan, the towers of Salem, the worship of his God in His holy temple!
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