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Psalm 137 is the 137th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down". The Book of Psalms is part of the third section of the Hebrew Bible , and a book of the Christian Old Testament .
A yearning for Jerusalem is expressed as well as hatred for the Holy City's enemies with sometimes violent imagery. People: Lord יהוה YHVH God Places: Babylon - Zion - Jerusalem - Edom
On the three Sundays before the beginning of Great Lent, Psalm 136 (KJV: Psalm 137), "By the waters of Babylon", is added to the Polyeleos. This psalm recounts the sorrow of the Jews during the Babylonian captivity , and their yearning for Jerusalem ; and is prescribed by the Church at this time to bring forth in the faithful sorrow over their ...
Psalm 136 there is Psalm 137 in the King James Bible. Van Nuffel set the psalm in 1916 for a mixed choir of four to six parts and organ (or orchestra). [1] [2] It has been called the starting point of his psalm settings. [1] The psalm was published by the Schwann Verlag (now part of Edition Peters), which published also other works of the ...
[1] [2] [3] The hymn is a closely paraphrased versification of Psalm 137, "By the rivers of Babylon", a lamentation for Jerusalem, exiled in Babylon. [1] [4] Its text and melody, Zahn No. 7663, first appeared in Strasbourg in 1525 in Wolf Köpphel's Das dritt theil Straßburger kirchenampt.
The oldest song of Zion in Jewish literature was written around the fifth century BCE, and is a lamentation that the enemy compels Israel to live on foreign soil; this is the celebrated Psalm 137:1-3. A similar Zionide of the same period is Psalm 86; in it the poet, full of hope, sings of the day when the Captivity shall be over and the ...
The song itself is based on Psalm 137, verses 5–6, one of the most well known of the Psalms: "If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither, let my tongue stick to my palate if I cease to think of you, if I do not keep Jerusalem in memory even at my happiest hour."
Psalm 137 Initial S The manuscript as it survives in Hildesheim has 209 folios (i.e. 418 pages) of vellum , which are numbered by a modern hand in Arabic numerals in the top right corner of the rectos, and there is an additional numbering of the miniatures at the bottom of their pages.