Psalms 137:3 meaning and explanation
for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”
Psalms 137:3, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is a Judean exile in Babylon after Jerusalem fell in 586 BC, recalling how the community wept by the rivers there. Their captors, likely soldiers or overseers, wanted entertainment, a cheerful song from Zion, the city the exiles were still mourning.
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