Salmos 137:2-9

2 Nos salgueiros que há no meio dela penduramos as nossas harpas,

3 pois ali aqueles que nos levaram cativos nos pediam canções; e os que nos atormentavam, que os alegrássemos, dizendo: Cantai-nos um dos cânticos de Sião.

4 Mas como entoaremos o cântico do Senhor em terra estrangeira?

5 Se eu me esquecer de ti, ó Jerusalém, esqueça-se a minha destra da sua destreza.

6 Apegue-se-me a língua ao céu da boca, se não me lembrar de ti, se eu não preferir Jerusalém � minha maior alegria.

7 Lembra-te, Senhor, contra os edomitas, do dia de Jerusalém, porque eles diziam: Arrasai-a, arrasai-a até os seus alicerces.

8 Ah! filha de Babilônia, devastadora; feliz aquele que te retribuir consoante nos fizeste a nós;

9 feliz aquele que pegar em teus pequeninos e der com eles nas pedra.

Salmos 137:2-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 137

The occasion of this psalm was the captivity of the Jews in Babylon, and the treatment they met with there; either as foreseen, or as now endured. Aben Ezra ascribes this psalm to David; and so the Syriac version, which calls it,

``a psalm of David; the words of the saints, who were carried captive into Babylon.''

The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Ethiopic versions, make it to be David's, and yet add the name of Jeremiah; and the Arabic version calls it David's, concerning Jeremiah: but, as Theodoret observes, Jeremiah was not carried into Babylon, but, after some short stay in or near Jerusalem, was forced away into Egypt; and could neither be the writer nor subject of this psalm: and though it might be written by David under a spirit of prophecy; who thereby might foresee and foretell the Babylonish captivity, and what the Jews would suffer in it; as the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah did, many years before it came to pass; yet it seems rather to have been written by one of the captivity, either while in it, or immediately after it.