Salmos 137:2-9

2 Sobre los sauces en medio de ella colgamos nuestras arpas.

3 Pues allí los que nos habían llevado cautivos nos pedían canciones, y los que nos atormentaban nos pedían alegría, diciendo: Cantadnos alguno de los cánticos de Sion.

4 ¿Cómo cantaremos la canción del SEÑOR en tierra extraña?

5 Si me olvido de ti, oh Jerusalén, pierda mi diestra su destreza.

6 Péguese mi lengua al paladar si no me acuerdo de ti, si no enaltezco a Jerusalén sobre mi supremo gozo.

7 Recuerda, oh SEÑOR, contra los hijos de Edom el día de Jerusalén, quienes dijeron: Arrasadla, arrasadla hasta sus cimientos.

8 Oh hija de Babilonia, la devastada, bienaventurado el que te devuelva el pago con que nos pagaste.

9 Bienaventurado será el que tome y estrelle tus pequeños contra la peña.

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.

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit., olvide