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Psalms 137:3

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.

Psalms 137:3 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 137:3

Theological / Devotional

Required of us a song. For an Assyrian pictorial representation of this verse see Fig. 9, p. 35, together with comments made there.

Songs of Zion. Their masters were deriding them and asking them to sing one of their sacred melodies.

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