Psalms 137:2 meaning and explanation

There on the willows we hung our harps,

Psalms 137:2, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is a Judean exile deported to Babylon after Jerusalem fell, and the opening verses picture the community gathered by their captors' rivers and canals. The willows, likely poplars of the region, held the harps the musicians had brought from home.

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