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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 .
This Bible is based on the English 2013 revision of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures which was released at the 129th annual meeting of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania on October 5 and 6, 2013 in the Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.A. [18] This revised edition in ...
Psalm 137. 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.
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 ...
Biblical Songs was written between 5 and 26 March 1894, while Dvořák was living in New York City. It has been suggested that he was prompted to write them by news of a death (of his father Frantisek, or of the composers Tchaikovsky or Gounod, or of the conductor Hans von Bülow); but there is no good evidence for that, and the most likely explanation is that he felt out of place in 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.
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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 ...