This is for Christians-from psalms- "On the bank of the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and wept on the willows

Question

there,we hung our harps". Please help me to understand these lines.Why are angels weeping here?Please share with me the story related to this

what about you Suguna? You yahoo addict.you are as bad as me lol
what will be of us Suguna?

Randy please tell about it in details.I need to understand

Answer 1

Psalm 137-1-5

This is in reference to a time when the Israelis were in captivitiy and it is a Psalm of mourning. Their captors wanted them to sing the songs of their culture to them and they were distraught over their anguish to see Jerusalem once again.

Answer 2

This is a song that was sung to remind them of the good time they (the Jews) before the Babylonian captivity. That is the reason for the weeping.

Answer 3

The Isrealites were mourning their captivity in Babylon.

Answer 4

Great Boney M tune!

Answer 5

It has to do with what was happening to the Israelites at the time. Read the rest of it.

Answer 6

They missed Zion. They were homesick.

Answer 7

ur still awake, with an active mind, and asking questions?Bad habit Aradhana LOL!!!!!! ok sorry, waise i dont know the answer, waiting for it. :)
edit: hehe! hamaara kuch nahi ho sakta!!

Answer 8

sorry i am with suguna.

Answer 9

Prophecy...

Answer 10

It is not referring to the angels, as far as I know.

Psalm 137 is a song sung by the Jews while they were in Exile in Babylon.

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See 2 Kings 20:12-21 and 2 Kings 24-25.

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2 Kings 25
...So in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. He encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it. The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah .... The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers. Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men and five royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land and sixty of his men who were found in the city. Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed.
So Judah went into captivity, away from her land. ...

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2 Chronicles 36
...11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. 12 He did evil in the eyes of the LORD his God and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke the word of the LORD. 13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him take an oath in God's name. He became stiff-necked and hardened his heart and would not turn to the LORD, the God of Israel. 14 Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful, following all the detestable practices of the nations and defiling the temple of the LORD, which he had consecrated in Jerusalem....

....20 He carried into exile to Babylon the remnant, who escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power. 21 The land enjoyed its sabbath rests; all the time of its desolation it rested, until the seventy years were completed in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah.

22 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and to put it in writing:

23 "This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:
" 'The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Anyone of his people among you—may the LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.' "

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Jeremiah 20:4

4 For this is what the LORD says: 'I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; with your own eyes you will see them fall by the sword of their enemies. I will hand all Judah over to the king of Babylon, who will carry them away to Babylon or put them to the sword.

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Daniel 1
1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple of his god in Babylonia [a] and put in the treasure house of his god.
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Esther 2:5-7
5 Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, 6 who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jehoiachin [a] king of Judah. 7 Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This girl, who was also known as Esther, was lovely in form and features, and Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.

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See also the books of "Ezra" and "Nehemiah".


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For a crash course in the history of bibical israel, see the links below:

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In a nutshell, after king Solomon dies, the 10 northern Tribes of Israel revolted and formed their own kingdom that was eventually conquered by the Assyrians. The ten northern tribes of Israel were scattered and lost after the conquest. The two southern tribes of Judea and Benjamin remained loyal to the King in Jerusalem. The southern Kingdom of Judea successfully retains their independence from Assyria. Babylon eventually conquered the Assyrians, and made the Kingdom of Judea pay protection money. When the King of Jerusalem refused, the king of Babylon conquered Judea and took the reaming Jews into exile for 70 years. When Babylon was conquered by the Persians, the Jews were allowed to return to Jerusalem by the King of Persia.