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class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Psalm</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"By the rivers of Babylon" redirects here. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Rivers_of_Babylon_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Rivers of Babylon (disambiguation)">Rivers of Babylon (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about <span class="nowrap">Psalm 137</span> in Hebrew (Masoretic) numbering. For <span class="nowrap">Psalm 137</span> in Greek Septuagint or Latin Vulgate numbering, see <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_138" title="Psalm 138">Psalm 138</a></span>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/File:Chludov_-_Rivers_of_Babylon_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Chludov_-_Rivers_of_Babylon_%28cropped%29.jpg/260px-Chludov_-_Rivers_of_Babylon_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="234" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Chludov_-_Rivers_of_Babylon_%28cropped%29.jpg/390px-Chludov_-_Rivers_of_Babylon_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Chludov_-_Rivers_of_Babylon_%28cropped%29.jpg/520px-Chludov_-_Rivers_of_Babylon_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="943" data-file-height="849" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Psalm 137 from <a href="/wiki/Chludov_Psalter" title="Chludov Psalter">Chludov Psalter</a> (9th century)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other name</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Psalm 136</li><li>"Super flumina Babylonis"</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">Hebrew (original)</td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above">Psalm 137</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div style="float: left;">← <a href="/wiki/Psalm_136" title="Psalm 136">Psalm 136</a></div><div style="float: right;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_138" title="Psalm 138">Psalm 138</a> →</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Eadwine_psalter_-_Trinity_College_Lib_-_f.243v.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Eadwine_psalter_-_Trinity_College_Lib_-_f.243v.jpg/250px-Eadwine_psalter_-_Trinity_College_Lib_-_f.243v.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="358" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Eadwine_psalter_-_Trinity_College_Lib_-_f.243v.jpg/375px-Eadwine_psalter_-_Trinity_College_Lib_-_f.243v.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Eadwine_psalter_-_Trinity_College_Lib_-_f.243v.jpg/500px-Eadwine_psalter_-_Trinity_College_Lib_-_f.243v.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1218" data-file-height="1745" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Psalm 137 in the <a href="/wiki/Eadwine_Psalter" title="Eadwine Psalter">Eadwine Psalter</a> (12th century)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Book</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Psalms" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Psalms">Book of Psalms</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Hebrew Bible part</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ketuvim" title="Ketuvim">Ketuvim</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Order in the Hebrew part</th><td class="infobox-data">1</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Category</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ketuvim" title="Ketuvim">Sifrei Emet</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Christian Bible part</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Order in the Christian part</th><td class="infobox-data">19</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Psalm 137</b> is the 137th psalm of the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Psalms" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Psalms">Book of Psalms</a>, beginning in English in the <a href="/wiki/King_James_Version" title="King James Version">King James Version</a>: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down". The Book of Psalms is part of the <a href="/wiki/Ketuvim" title="Ketuvim">third section</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Tanakh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tanakh">Hebrew Bible</a>, and a book of the <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a>. In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek <a href="/wiki/Septuagint" title="Septuagint">Septuagint</a> and Latin <a href="/wiki/Vulgate" title="Vulgate">Vulgate</a> translations of the Bible, this psalm is <b>Psalm 136</b>. In Latin, it is known by the <a href="/wiki/Incipit" title="Incipit">incipit</a>, "<b><span title="Latin-language text"><span lang="la" style="font-style: normal;">Super flumina Babylonis</span></span></b>".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The psalm is a <a href="/wiki/Psalms#Primary_types" title="Psalms">communal lament</a> about remembering Zion, and yearning for Jerusalem while dwelling in exile during the <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_captivity" title="Babylonian captivity">Babylonian captivity</a>. </p><p>The psalm forms a regular part of liturgy in <a href="#Judaism">Jewish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox</a>, <a href="#Western_Christianity">Catholic</a>, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant traditions. It has often been set to music and paraphrased in hymns. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Text">Text</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Text"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hebrew">Hebrew</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Hebrew"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following table shows the Hebrew text<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of the Psalm with vowels alongside an English translation based upon the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Publication_Society_of_America_Version" title="Jewish Publication Society of America Version">JPS 1917</a> translation (now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>). </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Verse </th> <th>Hebrew </th> <th>English translation (JPS 1917) </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">1 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1241449095">.mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-family:"Ezra SIL SR","Ezra SIL","SBL Hebrew","Taamey Frank CLM","SBL BibLit","Taamey Ashkenaz","Frank Ruehl CLM","Keter Aram Tsova","Taamey David CLM","Keter YG","Shofar","David CLM","Hadasim CLM","Simple CLM","Nachlieli",Cardo,Alef,"Noto Serif Hebrew","Noto Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}</style><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">עַ֥ל נַהֲר֨וֹת ׀ בָּבֶ֗ל שָׁ֣ם יָ֭שַׁבְנוּ גַּם־בָּכִ֑ינוּ בְּ֝זׇכְרֵ֗נוּ אֶת־צִיּֽוֹן׃</span>‎ </td> <td>By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">עַֽל־עֲרָבִ֥ים בְּתוֹכָ֑הּ תָּ֝לִ֗ינוּ כִּנֹּרוֹתֵֽינוּ׃</span>‎ </td> <td>Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">כִּ֤י שָׁ֨ם שְֽׁאֵל֪וּנוּ שׁוֹבֵ֡ינוּ דִּבְרֵי־שִׁ֭יר וְתוֹלָלֵ֣ינוּ שִׂמְחָ֑ה שִׁ֥ירוּ לָ֝֗נוּ מִשִּׁ֥יר צִיּֽוֹן׃</span>‎ </td> <td>For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, And our tormentors asked of us mirth: 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.' </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">4 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">אֵ֗יךְ נָשִׁ֥יר אֶת־שִׁיר־יְהֹוָ֑ה עַ֝֗ל אַדְמַ֥ת נֵכָֽר׃</span>‎ </td> <td>How shall we sing the LORD's song In a foreign land? </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">5 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">אִֽם־אֶשְׁכָּחֵ֥ךְ יְֽרוּשָׁלָ֗͏ִם תִּשְׁכַּ֥ח יְמִינִֽי׃</span>‎ </td> <td>If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">6 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">תִּדְבַּֽק־לְשׁוֹנִ֨י ׀ לְחִכִּי֮ אִם־לֹ֢א אֶ֫זְכְּרֵ֥כִי אִם־לֹ֣א אַ֭עֲלֶה אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלַ֑͏ִם עַ֝֗ל רֹ֣אשׁ שִׂמְחָתִֽי׃</span>‎ </td> <td>Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember thee not; If I set not Jerusalem Above my chiefest joy. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">7 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">זְכֹ֤ר יְהֹוָ֨ה ׀ לִבְנֵ֬י אֱד֗וֹם אֵת֮ י֤וֹם יְֽר֫וּשָׁלָ֥͏ִם הָ֭אֹ֣מְרִים עָ֤רוּ ׀ עָ֑רוּ עַ֝֗ד הַיְס֥וֹד בָּֽהּ׃</span>‎ </td> <td>Remember, O LORD, against the children of Edom The day of Jerusalem; Who said: 'Rase it, rase it, Even to the foundation thereof.' </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">8 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">בַּת־בָּבֶ֗ל הַשְּׁד֫וּדָ֥ה אַשְׁרֵ֥י שֶׁיְשַׁלֶּם־לָ֑ךְ אֶת־גְּ֝מוּלֵ֗ךְ שֶׁגָּמַ֥לְתְּ לָֽנוּ׃</span>‎ </td> <td>O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be, that repayeth thee As thou hast served us. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">9 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">אַשְׁרֵ֤י ׀ שֶׁיֹּאחֵ֓ז וְנִפֵּ֬ץ אֶֽת־עֹלָלַ֗יִךְ אֶל־הַסָּֽלַע׃</span>‎ </td> <td>Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="King_James_Version">King James Version</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: King James Version"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li>By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.</li> <li>We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?</li> <li>If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.</li> <li>If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.</li> <li>Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.</li> <li>O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.</li> <li>Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Context_and_content">Context and content</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Context and content"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%A2_%D7%92%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%91%D7%9C.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%A2_%D7%92%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%91%D7%9C.jpg/290px-%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%A2_%D7%92%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%91%D7%9C.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%A2_%D7%92%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%91%D7%9C.jpg/435px-%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%A2_%D7%92%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%91%D7%9C.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%A2_%D7%92%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%91%D7%9C.jpg/580px-%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%A2_%D7%92%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%91%D7%9C.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1059" /></a><figcaption>The journey of the Judean exiles to Babylon in the first decades of the 6th century BC.</figcaption></figure> <p>After <a href="/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar_II" title="Nebuchadnezzar II">Nebuchadnezzar II</a>'s successful <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(597_BC)" title="Siege of Jerusalem (597 BC)">siege of Jerusalem in 597 BC</a>, and subsequent campaigns, inhabitants of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Judah" title="Kingdom of Judah">Kingdom of Judah</a> were deported to <a href="/wiki/Babylonia" title="Babylonia">Babylonia</a>, where they were <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_captivity" title="Babylonian captivity">held captive</a> until some time after the <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Babylon" title="Fall of Babylon">Fall of Babylon</a> (539 BC). The rivers of <a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylon</a> are the <a href="/wiki/Euphrates" title="Euphrates">Euphrates</a> river, its tributaries, and the <a href="/wiki/Tigris" title="Tigris">Tigris</a> river. </p><p>Psalm 137 is a <a href="/wiki/Hymn" title="Hymn">hymn</a> expressing the yearnings of the Jewish people during their Babylonian exile. In its whole form of nine verses, the psalm reflects the yearning for Jerusalem as well as hatred for the Holy City's enemies with sometimes violent imagery. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Rabbinic_literature" title="Rabbinic literature">Rabbinical</a> sources attributed the poem to the prophet <a href="/wiki/Jeremiah" title="Jeremiah">Jeremiah</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Septuagint version of the psalm bears the superscription: "For David. By Jeremias, in the Captivity."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Verses_1–4"><span id="Verses_1.E2.80.934"></span>Verses 1–4</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Verses 1–4"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The early lines of the psalm describe the sadness of the <a href="/wiki/Israelite" class="mw-redirect" title="Israelite">Israelites</a> in exile, while remembering their homeland, weeping and hanging their <a href="/wiki/Harp" title="Harp">harps</a> on trees. Asked to "sing the Lord's song in a strange land", they refuse. </p> <table> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td><span style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">00</span>1.  </td> <td>By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td><span style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">00</span>2.  </td> <td>We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td><span style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">00</span>3.  </td> <td>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. </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td><span style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">00</span>4.  </td> <td>How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Methodist writer <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Benson" title="Joseph Benson">Joseph Benson</a> reflects on the "inexpressible pathos ... in these few words! How do they, at once, transport us to Babylon, and place before our eyes the mournful situation of the Israelitish captives! Driven from their native country, stripped of every comfort and convenience, in a strange land among idolaters, wearied and broken-hearted, they sit in silence by those hostile waters." He argues that the reference to harps reflects "all instruments of music" and that the words can probably be interpreted to mean that the singers were <a href="/wiki/Levite" title="Levite">Levites</a> used to the performance of music in the service of the <a href="/wiki/Solomon%27s_Temple" title="Solomon's Temple">temple</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Verses_5–6"><span id="Verses_5.E2.80.936"></span>Verses 5–6</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Verses 5–6"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In verses 5–6 the speaker turns into self-exhortation to remember Jerusalem: </p> <table> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td><span style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">00</span>5.  </td> <td>If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [her cunning]. </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td><span style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">00</span>6.  </td> <td>If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Verses_7–9"><span id="Verses_7.E2.80.939"></span>Verses 7–9</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Verses 7–9"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The psalm ends with prophetic predictions of violent revenge. </p> <table> <tbody><tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td><span style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">00</span>7.  </td> <td>Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td><span style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">00</span>8.  </td> <td>O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td><span style="visibility:hidden;color:transparent;">00</span>9.  </td> <td>Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Liturgical_uses">Liturgical uses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Liturgical uses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Old_Jerusalem_Yochanan_ben_Zakai_Synagogue_Painting_Psalm_137_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Old_Jerusalem_Yochanan_ben_Zakai_Synagogue_Painting_Psalm_137_%282%29.jpg/300px-Old_Jerusalem_Yochanan_ben_Zakai_Synagogue_Painting_Psalm_137_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Old_Jerusalem_Yochanan_ben_Zakai_Synagogue_Painting_Psalm_137_%282%29.jpg/450px-Old_Jerusalem_Yochanan_ben_Zakai_Synagogue_Painting_Psalm_137_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Old_Jerusalem_Yochanan_ben_Zakai_Synagogue_Painting_Psalm_137_%282%29.jpg/600px-Old_Jerusalem_Yochanan_ben_Zakai_Synagogue_Painting_Psalm_137_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2380" /></a><figcaption>Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue Wall Painting</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Psalm_136_Initial_S.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Psalm_136_Initial_S.jpg/220px-Psalm_136_Initial_S.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Psalm_136_Initial_S.jpg/330px-Psalm_136_Initial_S.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Psalm_136_Initial_S.jpg/440px-Psalm_136_Initial_S.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1582" /></a><figcaption>Psalm 137 (136) in the <a href="/wiki/St._Albans_Psalter" title="St. Albans Psalter">St. Albans Psalter</a>, 12th century</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Judaism">Judaism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Judaism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The psalm is customarily recited on <a href="/wiki/Tisha_B%27Av" title="Tisha B'Av">Tisha B'Av</a> and by some during the nine days preceding Tisha B'Av, commemorating the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Psalm 137 is traditionally recited before the <a href="/wiki/Birkat_Hamazon" title="Birkat Hamazon">Birkat Hamazon</a> (Grace After Meals) on a weekday. However, on <a href="/wiki/Shabbat" title="Shabbat">Shabbat</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jewish_holiday" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish holiday">Jewish holidays</a>, and at the celebratory <a href="/wiki/Seudat_mitzvah" title="Seudat mitzvah">meal</a> accompanying a <a href="/wiki/Jewish_wedding" title="Jewish wedding">Jewish wedding</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brit_milah" title="Brit milah">brit milah</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Pidyon_haben" title="Pidyon haben">pidyon haben</a>, <a href="/wiki/Psalm_126" title="Psalm 126">Psalm 126</a> is recited before the Birkat Hamazon instead.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Verses 5 and 6 are customarily said by the groom at <a href="/wiki/Jewish_wedding" title="Jewish wedding">Jewish wedding</a> ceremony shortly before breaking a glass as a symbolic act of mourning over the destruction of the Temple.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Verse 7 is found in the repetition of the <a href="/wiki/Amidah" title="Amidah">Amidah</a> on <a href="/wiki/Rosh_Hashanah" title="Rosh Hashanah">Rosh Hashanah</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="A complete citation is needed. (July 2018)">full citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Psalm 137 is one of the ten Psalms of the <a href="/wiki/Tikkun_HaKlali" title="Tikkun HaKlali">Tikkun HaKlali</a> of Rebbe <a href="/wiki/Nachman_of_Breslov" title="Nachman of Breslov">Nachman of Breslov</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eastern_Orthodox_Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Eastern Orthodox Church"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</a>, Psalm 136 (Psalm 137 in the Masoretic Text) is part of the nineteenth <a href="/wiki/Kathisma" title="Kathisma">Kathisma</a> division of the Psalter, read at <a href="/wiki/Matins" title="Matins">Matins</a> on Friday mornings, and on Wednesdays and Fridays during <a href="/wiki/Lent" title="Lent">Lent</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Matins" title="Matins">Matins</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Third_Hour" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Hour">Third Hour</a>, respectively. </p><p>It is also chanted solemnly at Matins on the last 1 to 3 Sundays <a href="/wiki/Pre-Lent" title="Pre-Lent">before Lent</a> (depending on the local custom), with the refrain, <i>Alleluia.</i><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Western_Christianity">Western Christianity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Western Christianity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In following the <a href="/wiki/Rule_of_St._Benedict" class="mw-redirect" title="Rule of St. Benedict">Rule of Saint Benedict</a> (530 <a href="/wiki/Anno_Domini" title="Anno Domini">AD</a>), the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> had <i>Super flumina Babylonis</i> set in the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Breviary" title="Roman Breviary">Roman Breviary</a> for <a href="/wiki/Vespers" title="Vespers">Vespers</a> on Wednesdays.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Missal" title="Roman Missal">Roman Missal</a> <a href="/wiki/Tridentine_Mass" title="Tridentine Mass">of 1962</a>, the first verse of was the <a href="/wiki/Offertory" title="Offertory">Offertory</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Mass_(liturgy)" title="Mass (liturgy)">Mass</a> on the 20th Sunday after <a href="/wiki/Pentecost" title="Pentecost">Pentecost</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council" title="Second Vatican Council">Second Vatican Council</a>, the last three verses of the psalm were deleted from liturgical books because their graphic cruelty was seen as incompatible with the <a href="/wiki/Gospel" title="Gospel">Gospel</a> message.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the three-year cycle of texts for the <a href="/wiki/Mass_of_Paul_VI" title="Mass of Paul VI">Mass of Paul VI</a>, promulgated in 1970 and called the Ordinary Form, this psalm is read on <a href="/wiki/Laetare_Sunday" title="Laetare Sunday">Laetare Sunday</a> (that is the Fourth Sunday in <a href="/wiki/Lent" title="Lent">Lent</a>) of Year B.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>As with the reforms in the Catholic Church, the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer_(1962)" title="Book of Common Prayer (1962)">1962 <i>Book of Common Prayer</i></a> used by the <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Church_of_Canada" title="Anglican Church of Canada">Anglican Church of Canada</a> has also removed the last three verses.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Lutheranism" title="Lutheranism">Lutheranism</a>, a <a href="/wiki/An_Wasserfl%C3%BCssen_Babylon" title="An Wasserflüssen Babylon">well-known hymn based on the psalm</a> has been associated with a <a href="/wiki/Gospel" title="Gospel">Gospel</a> reading in which <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> foretells and <a href="/wiki/Jesus_wept" title="Jesus wept">mourns</a> the <a href="/wiki/Destruction_of_Jerusalem" class="mw-redirect" title="Destruction of Jerusalem">Destruction of Jerusalem</a> (<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Luke#19:41" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/Luke">Luke 19:41–48</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Translations,_versifications_and_settings"><span id="Translations.2C_versifications_and_settings"></span>Translations, versifications and settings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Translations, versifications and settings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Super-Flumina-Babylonis-Stra%C3%9Fburger-Gesangbuch-1541.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Super-Flumina-Babylonis-Stra%C3%9Fburger-Gesangbuch-1541.jpg/220px-Super-Flumina-Babylonis-Stra%C3%9Fburger-Gesangbuch-1541.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="324" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Super-Flumina-Babylonis-Stra%C3%9Fburger-Gesangbuch-1541.jpg/330px-Super-Flumina-Babylonis-Stra%C3%9Fburger-Gesangbuch-1541.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Super-Flumina-Babylonis-Stra%C3%9Fburger-Gesangbuch-1541.jpg/440px-Super-Flumina-Babylonis-Stra%C3%9Fburger-Gesangbuch-1541.jpg 2x" data-file-width="685" data-file-height="1010" /></a><figcaption>Dachstein's "An Wasserflüssen Babylon" in a 1541 edition of the <i>Straßburger Gesangbuch</i> (<a href="/wiki/Strasbourg" title="Strasbourg">Strasbourg</a> Hymnal)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:P802-Walther-Manuscript-BWV653b-first-page--An-Wasserfl%C3%BCssen-Babylon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/P802-Walther-Manuscript-BWV653b-first-page--An-Wasserfl%C3%BCssen-Babylon.jpg/220px-P802-Walther-Manuscript-BWV653b-first-page--An-Wasserfl%C3%BCssen-Babylon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/P802-Walther-Manuscript-BWV653b-first-page--An-Wasserfl%C3%BCssen-Babylon.jpg/330px-P802-Walther-Manuscript-BWV653b-first-page--An-Wasserfl%C3%BCssen-Babylon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/P802-Walther-Manuscript-BWV653b-first-page--An-Wasserfl%C3%BCssen-Babylon.jpg/440px-P802-Walther-Manuscript-BWV653b-first-page--An-Wasserfl%C3%BCssen-Babylon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2880" data-file-height="2340" /></a><figcaption>Early version of Bach's <i>An Wasserflüssen Babylon</i> <a href="/wiki/Chorale_prelude" title="Chorale prelude">chorale prelude</a>, <a href="/wiki/BWV_653" class="mw-redirect" title="BWV 653">BWV 653</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Psaume_137_1817.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Psaume_137_1817.jpg/220px-Psaume_137_1817.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Psaume_137_1817.jpg/330px-Psaume_137_1817.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Psaume_137_1817.jpg/440px-Psaume_137_1817.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1391" data-file-height="937" /></a><figcaption>Psalm 137 set to music in a French Protestant psalm book of 1817</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eduard_Bendemann-_Die_trauernden_Juden_im_Exil_um_1832.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Eduard_Bendemann-_Die_trauernden_Juden_im_Exil_um_1832.jpg/220px-Eduard_Bendemann-_Die_trauernden_Juden_im_Exil_um_1832.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Eduard_Bendemann-_Die_trauernden_Juden_im_Exil_um_1832.jpg/330px-Eduard_Bendemann-_Die_trauernden_Juden_im_Exil_um_1832.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Eduard_Bendemann-_Die_trauernden_Juden_im_Exil_um_1832.jpg/440px-Eduard_Bendemann-_Die_trauernden_Juden_im_Exil_um_1832.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1706" data-file-height="1130" /></a><figcaption><i>By the rivers of Babylon</i>, painting by <a href="/wiki/Eduard_Bendemann" title="Eduard Bendemann">Eduard Bendemann</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1832</span></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:By_the_Waters_of_Babylon_Arthur_Hacker.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/By_the_Waters_of_Babylon_Arthur_Hacker.jpg/220px-By_the_Waters_of_Babylon_Arthur_Hacker.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/By_the_Waters_of_Babylon_Arthur_Hacker.jpg/330px-By_the_Waters_of_Babylon_Arthur_Hacker.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/By_the_Waters_of_Babylon_Arthur_Hacker.jpg/440px-By_the_Waters_of_Babylon_Arthur_Hacker.jpg 2x" data-file-width="686" data-file-height="944" /></a><figcaption><i>By the Waters of Babylon</i>, painting by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Hacker" title="Arthur Hacker">Arthur Hacker</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1888</span></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gebhard_Fugel_An_den_Wassern_Babylons.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Gebhard_Fugel_An_den_Wassern_Babylons.jpg/220px-Gebhard_Fugel_An_den_Wassern_Babylons.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Gebhard_Fugel_An_den_Wassern_Babylons.jpg/330px-Gebhard_Fugel_An_den_Wassern_Babylons.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Gebhard_Fugel_An_den_Wassern_Babylons.jpg/440px-Gebhard_Fugel_An_den_Wassern_Babylons.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2933" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption><i>By the rivers of Babylon</i>, painting by <a href="/wiki/Gebhard_Fugel" title="Gebhard Fugel">Gebhard Fugel</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1920</span></figcaption></figure> <p>The psalm has been set to music by many composers. Many settings omit the last verse. The hymnwriter <a href="/wiki/John_L._Bell" title="John L. Bell">John L. Bell</a> comments alongside his own setting of this Psalm: "The final verse is omitted in this metricization, because its seemingly outrageous curse is better dealt with in preaching or group conversation. It should not be forgotten, especially by those who have never known exile, dispossession or the rape of people and land."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="16th_to_18th_centuries">16th to 18th centuries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 16th to 18th centuries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Latin settings ("Super flumina Babylonis") as four-part <a href="/wiki/Motets" class="mw-redirect" title="Motets">motets</a> were composed by <a href="/wiki/Costanzo_Festa" title="Costanzo Festa">Costanzo Festa</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Gombert" title="Nicolas Gombert">Nicolas Gombert</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina" title="Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina">Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina</a><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Orlando_Lassus" class="mw-redirect" title="Orlando Lassus">Orlando Lassus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Philippe_de_Monte" title="Philippe de Monte">Philippe de Monte</a><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_Luis_de_Victoria" title="Tomás Luis de Victoria">Tomás Luis de Victoria</a> set the text for eight parts.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> French Baroque settings were written by <a href="/wiki/Henri_Dumont" title="Henri Dumont">Henry Dumont</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Marc-Antoine_Charpentier" title="Marc-Antoine Charpentier">Marc-Antoine Charpentier</a>, 2 settings, H.170 (1670) and H.171-H.171 a (? late 1670),<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Charles-Hubert_Gervais" title="Charles-Hubert Gervais">Charles-Hubert Gervais</a> (1723), <a href="/wiki/Michel_Richard_Delalande" title="Michel Richard Delalande">Michel-Richard Delalande</a> S.13 (1686).<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Giroust" title="François Giroust">François Giroust</a> (1768). </p><p>Wolfgang Dachstein's "<a href="/wiki/An_Wasserfl%C3%BCssen_Babylon" title="An Wasserflüssen Babylon">An Wasserflüssen Babylon</a>", a German rhymed paraphrase and setting of the psalm, was first published in 1525.<sup id="cite_ref-Terry_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Terry-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was soon adopted as a <a href="/wiki/Lutheran_hymn" title="Lutheran hymn">Lutheran hymn</a>, and appeared in publications such as the <i><a href="/wiki/Becker_Psalter" title="Becker Psalter">Becker Psalter</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Schütz_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schütz-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A manuscript written in the early 17th century and a 1660s print illustrate that Dachstein's version of the psalm was adopted in <a href="/wiki/Ashkenazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashkenazi">Ashkenazi</a> culture.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMatut2011I:_pp.&nbsp;[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidXMJqqjE-9wYCpgPA50_50–55],_[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidDN55DwAAQBAJpgRA1-PA64_64];_II:_pp.&nbsp;[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidDN55DwAAQBAJpgRA1-PA101_101–108]_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMatut2011I:_pp.&nbsp;[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidXMJqqjE-9wYCpgPA50_50–55],_[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidDN55DwAAQBAJpgRA1-PA64_64];_II:_pp.&nbsp;[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidDN55DwAAQBAJpgRA1-PA101_101–108]-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Lutheran_chorale" title="Lutheran chorale">Four-part chorale</a> settings of Dachstein's hymn were realised by, among others, <a href="/wiki/Johann_Hermann_Schein" title="Johann Hermann Schein">Johann Hermann Schein</a><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Sch%C3%BCtz" title="Heinrich Schütz">Heinrich Schütz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Schütz_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schütz-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Schütz also set <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther" title="Martin Luther">Luther</a>'s prose translation of Psalm 137 ("An den Wassern zu Babel", <a href="/wiki/SWV_37" class="mw-redirect" title="SWV 37">SWV 37</a>, included in the <i><a href="/wiki/Psalmen_Davids" title="Psalmen Davids">Psalmen Davids</a></i>, Op. 2, 1619),<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and another setting, <a href="/wiki/Sch%C3%BCtz-Werke-Verzeichnis" class="mw-redirect" title="Schütz-Werke-Verzeichnis">SWV</a> 242, for the <i><a href="/wiki/Becker_Psalter" title="Becker Psalter">Becker Psalter</a></i>, published first in 1628. Organ compositions based on Dachstein's hymn include <a href="/wiki/Johann_Adam_Reincken" title="Johann Adam Reincken">Johann Adam Reincken</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/An_Wasserfl%C3%BCssen_Babylon_(Reincken)" title="An Wasserflüssen Babylon (Reincken)">An Wasserflüssen Babylon</a></i>, and one of <a href="/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach" title="Johann Sebastian Bach">Johann Sebastian Bach</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Great_Eighteen_Chorale_Preludes" title="Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes">Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Terry_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Terry-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first composition in <a href="/wiki/Eustache_Du_Caurroy" title="Eustache Du Caurroy">Eustache Du Caurroy</a>'s <i>Meslanges de la musique</i>, published in 1610, a year after the composer's death, is "Le long des eaux, ou se bagne", a six-part setting of <a href="/wiki/Gilles_Durant_de_la_Bergerie" title="Gilles Durant de la Bergerie">Gilles Durant de la Bergerie</a>'s paraphrase of Psalm 137.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Salamone_Rossi" title="Salamone Rossi">Salamone Rossi</a> (1570–1630) set the psalm in Hebrew (עַל נַהֲרוֹת בָּבֶל, <i>Al naharot Bavel</i>) for four parts.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Locke_(composer)" title="Matthew Locke (composer)">Matthew Locke</a>'s <i>Super flumina Babylonis</i> motet is an extended setting of the first nine verses of the psalm.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBuelow2004[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidaw1TTtpp4FwCpgPA298_298]–[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidaw1TTtpp4FwCpgPA299_299]_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBuelow2004[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidaw1TTtpp4FwCpgPA298_298]–[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidaw1TTtpp4FwCpgPA299_299]-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The psalm's first two verses were used for a musical setting in a <a href="/wiki/Round_(music)" title="Round (music)">round</a> by English composer <a href="/wiki/Philip_Hayes_(composer)" title="Philip Hayes (composer)">Philip Hayes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/William_Billings" title="William Billings">William Billings</a> adapted the text to describe the British occupation of Boston in his anthem "Lamentation over Boston".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStowe2016[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidpd0mDAAAQBAJpgPA68_68–74]_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStowe2016[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidpd0mDAAAQBAJpgPA68_68–74]-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Artemy_Vedel" title="Artemy Vedel">Artemy Vedel</a> composed two choral concertos based on the psalm in Ukrainian, <i>Na rekakh Vavilonskikh</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>'s "We sat down and wept by the waters", a versified paraphrase of Psalm 137, was published in his <i><a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Melodies" title="Hebrew Melodies">Hebrew Melodies</a></i> in 1815. The poetry was set by, among others, <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Nathan" title="Isaac Nathan">Isaac Nathan</a> (1815) and <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Sebastian_Wesley" title="Samuel Sebastian Wesley">Samuel Sebastian Wesley</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1834</span>). The poem was translated in French by <a href="/wiki/Alexis_Paulin_Paris" title="Alexis Paulin Paris">Alexis Paulin Paris</a>, and in German by <a href="/wiki/Adolf_B%C3%B6ttger" title="Adolf Böttger">Adolf Böttger</a>. A German translation by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Franz_Theremin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Franz Theremin (page does not exist)">Franz Theremin</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Theremin" class="extiw" title="de:Franz Theremin">de</a>]</span>, "An Babylons Wassern gefangen", was set by <a href="/wiki/Carl_Loewe" title="Carl Loewe">Carl Loewe</a> (No. 2 of his <i>Hebräische Gesänge</i>, Op. 4, 1823). Another German translation was set by <a href="/wiki/Ferruccio_Busoni" title="Ferruccio Busoni">Ferruccio Busoni</a> ("An Babylons Wassern wir weinten" in <i><a href="/wiki/Zwei_hebr%C3%A4ische_Melodien_von_Lord_Byron" class="mw-redirect" title="Zwei hebräische Melodien von Lord Byron">Zwei hebräische Melodien von Lord Byron</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/BV_202" class="mw-redirect" title="BV 202">BV 202</a>, 1884).<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Psalm 137 was the inspiration for the famous slave chorus "<a href="/wiki/Va,_pensiero" title="Va, pensiero">Va, pensiero</a>" from Verdi's opera <i><a href="/wiki/Nabucco" title="Nabucco">Nabucco</a></i> (1842).<sup id="cite_ref-SchippeStetson2006_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SchippeStetson2006-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Charles-Valentin_Alkan" title="Charles-Valentin Alkan">Charles-Valentin Alkan</a>'s piano piece <i>Super flumina Babylonis: Paraphrase</i>, Op. 52 (1859), is in the printed score preceded by a French translation of Psalm 137.<sup id="cite_ref-Rimm2002_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rimm2002-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Charles_Gounod" title="Charles Gounod">Charles Gounod</a> set "Près du fleuve étranger", a French paraphrase of the psalm, in 1861.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1866 this setting was published with <a href="/wiki/Henry_Farnie" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Farnie">Henry Farnie</a>'s text version, as "By Babylon's wave: Psalm CXXXVII".<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1863, <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9" title="Gabriel Fauré">Gabriel Fauré</a> wrote a <i>Super Flumina Babylonis</i> for mixed chorus and orchestra.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <a href="/wiki/Peter_Cornelius" title="Peter Cornelius">Peter Cornelius</a> based the music of his paraphrase of Psalm 137, "An Babels Wasserflüssen", Op. 13 No. 2 (1872), on the "Sarabande" of Bach's third <i><a href="/wiki/English_Suites_(Bach)" title="English Suites (Bach)">English Suite</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Czech composer <a href="/wiki/Anton%C3%ADn_Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k" title="Antonín Dvořák">Antonín Dvořák</a> (1841–1904) set verses 1–5 to music as No. 7 of his <i><a href="/wiki/Biblical_Songs" title="Biblical Songs">Biblical Songs</a></i> (1894).<sup id="cite_ref-LasterStrommen2003_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LasterStrommen2003-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_and_21st_centuries">20th and 21st centuries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 20th and 21st centuries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>20th and 21st-century settings based on, or referring to, Psalm 137 include: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Super_flumina_Babylonis_(Nuffel)" title="Super flumina Babylonis (Nuffel)">Super flumina Babylonis</a></i> (1916) for mixed choir and organ, by <a href="/wiki/Jules_Van_Nuffel" title="Jules Van Nuffel">Jules Van Nuffel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Leytens_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leytens-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/William_Walton" title="William Walton">William Walton</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Belshazzar%27s_Feast_(Walton)" title="Belshazzar's Feast (Walton)">Belshazzar's Feast</a></i>, a 1931 <a href="/wiki/Cantata" title="Cantata">cantata</a>, a version of the opening section is set to music, as if sung by the Israelite captives in Babylon.<sup id="cite_ref-Letellier2017_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Letellier2017-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The second of the <i>Two Psalms</i> by <a href="/wiki/Harry_Partch" title="Harry Partch">Harry Partch</a> (1901–1974) is "By the Rivers of Babylon", which he recorded in 1942 in a version for voice, chromelodeon and adapted viola.<sup id="cite_ref-Granade2014_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Granade2014-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>An English setting ("By the Rivers of Babylon") by <a href="/wiki/David_Amram" title="David Amram">David Amram</a> (b. 1930), for solo soprano and <a href="/wiki/SATB" title="SATB">SSAA</a> choir (1969).<sup id="cite_ref-Laster1996_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Laster1996-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles#Stay_on_topic" title="Wikipedia:Writing better articles"><span title="The material near this tag may contain information that is not relevant to the article's main topic. (July 2018)">relevant?</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Rivers_of_Babylon" title="Rivers of Babylon">Rivers of Babylon</a>", in part based on the opening verses of the Psalm, is a <a href="/wiki/Rastafarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Rastafarian">Rastafarian</a> song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaican</a> <a href="/wiki/Reggae" title="Reggae">reggae</a> group <a href="/wiki/The_Melodians" title="The Melodians">The Melodians</a> in 1970. It is featured in the 1972 film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Harder_They_Come" title="The Harder They Come">The Harder They Come</a></i> and well known through its hit single 1978 rendition by <a href="/wiki/Boney_M." title="Boney M.">Boney M.</a> In 1992, the rock/reggae group <a href="/wiki/Sublime_(band)" title="Sublime (band)">Sublime</a> released a live cover of the song on their <i><a href="/wiki/40oz._to_Freedom" title="40oz. to Freedom">40oz. to Freedom</a></i> album.<a href="/wiki/U_Roy" class="mw-redirect" title="U Roy">U Roy</a>, <a href="/wiki/I_Roy" class="mw-redirect" title="I Roy">I Roy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ras_Michael" title="Ras Michael">Ras Michael</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brent_Dowe" class="mw-redirect" title="Brent Dowe">Brent Dowe</a> also released adaptations of the Psalm<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStowe201651–56,_205_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStowe201651–56,_205-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinead_O_Connor" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinead O Connor">Sinead O Connor</a> recorded a version of the Melodians' adaption of the Psalm with bassist <a href="/wiki/Robbie_Shakespeare" title="Robbie Shakespeare">Robbie Shakespeare</a> on her <a href="/wiki/Theology_(album)" title="Theology (album)">Theology (album)</a></li> <li>The psalm was set, as <i>On the Willows,</i> in the <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Schwartz_(composer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Schwartz (composer)">Stephen Schwartz</a> Broadway musical <i><a href="/wiki/Godspell" title="Godspell">Godspell</a></i> (1971).<sup id="cite_ref-Laird2014_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Laird2014-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_McLean" title="Don McLean">Don McLean</a> covered Hayes's round as "Babylon", which was the final track on his 1971 album <i><a href="/wiki/American_Pie_(Don_McLean_album)" title="American Pie (Don McLean album)">American Pie</a></i>. Another cover of the round was featured at the end of the episode "<a href="/wiki/Mad_Men_(season_1)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mad Men (season 1)">Babylon</a>" during the first season of <i><a href="/wiki/Mad_Men" title="Mad Men">Mad Men</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStowe201656–_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStowe201656–-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Estonian composer <a href="/wiki/Arvo_P%C3%A4rt" title="Arvo Pärt">Arvo Pärt</a> composed <i>An den Wassern zu Babel saßen wir und weinten</i> in 1976 (revised 1984).<sup id="cite_ref-Shenton2018_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shenton2018-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 1981, <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Sumsion" title="Herbert Sumsion">Herbert Sumsion</a> composed <i><a href="/wiki/In_Exile_(Sumsion)" title="In Exile (Sumsion)">In Exile</a></i>, a motet for double choir on verses 1–6, premiered at the <a href="/wiki/Gloucester_Cathedral" title="Gloucester Cathedral">Gloucester Cathedral</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The psalm was the inspiration for Leonard Cohen's "By the Rivers Dark" on his 2001 album <i><a href="/wiki/Ten_New_Songs" title="Ten New Songs">Ten New Songs</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Burger2014_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Burger2014-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Psalm 137:5–6 is the basis for the chorus of <a href="/wiki/Matisyahu" title="Matisyahu">Matisyahu</a>'s single "<a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_(Matisyahu_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jerusalem (Matisyahu song)">Jerusalem</a>" (2006).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStowe201663–64_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStowe201663–64-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Psalm 137 is the central text of <a href="/wiki/John_Tavener" title="John Tavener">John Tavener</a>'s "Lament for Jerusalem – a mystical love song".<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LongSawyer2015_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LongSawyer2015-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The artist <a href="/wiki/Fernando_Ortega" title="Fernando Ortega">Fernando Ortega</a> based the song "City of Sorrows" on Psalm 137.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles#Stay_on_topic" title="Wikipedia:Writing better articles"><span title="The material near this tag may contain information that is not relevant to the article's main topic. (July 2018)">relevant?</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>"I Hung My Harp Upon the Willows" is a song by <a href="/wiki/The_Trashcan_Sinatras" class="mw-redirect" title="The Trashcan Sinatras">The Trashcan Sinatras</a> about poet <a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns" title="Robert Burns">Robert Burns</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles#Stay_on_topic" title="Wikipedia:Writing better articles"><span title="The material near this tag may contain information that is not relevant to the article's main topic. (July 2018)">relevant?</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>It is referenced in <a href="/wiki/The_Mountain_Goats" title="The Mountain Goats">The Mountain Goats</a>' "September 15th 1983" off of <i><a href="/wiki/Heretic_Pride" title="Heretic Pride">Heretic Pride</a></i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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(August 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Richardson" title="Samuel Richardson">Samuel Richardson</a>'s 1740 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Pamela;_or,_Virtue_Rewarded" title="Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded">Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded</a></i>, Pamela adapts psalm 137 to describe her spiritual exile from home.</li></ul> <p>Phrases from the psalm have been referenced in numerous works, including: </p> <ul><li>In the third stanza, <i>The Fire Sermon</i>, of <a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot" title="T. S. Eliot">T. S. Eliot</a>'s 1922 poem <i><a href="/wiki/The_Waste_Land" title="The Waste Land">The Waste Land</a></i> line 182 is: 'By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept...'. <i>Leman</i> is both the French for <a href="/wiki/Lake_Geneva" title="Lake Geneva">Lake Geneva</a> and an archaic word for "<a href="/wiki/Mistress_(form_of_address)" title="Mistress (form of address)">mistress</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/By_the_Waters_of_Babylon" title="By the Waters of Babylon">By the Waters of Babylon</a>", 1937 short story by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Vincent_Ben%C3%A9t" title="Stephen Vincent Benét">Stephen Vincent Benét</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Goudge" title="Elizabeth Goudge">Elizabeth Goudge</a> used a version of the opening words as the title, and in the text of her short story about an Egyptian slave girl who meets Mary and Joseph shortly after the Nativity, and then warns them about King Herod, and helps them escape to a hilltown in the Egyptian desert, <i>By the Waters of Babylon</i> in <i>The Ikon on the Wall, and Other Stories</i> (Gerald Duckworth, London, 1943), and also in <i>The Reward of Faith, and Other Stories</i> (Gerald Duckworth, London, 1950).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/By_Grand_Central_Station_I_Sat_Down_and_Wept" title="By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept">By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept</a></i>, 1945 <a href="/wiki/Prose_poem" class="mw-redirect" title="Prose poem">prose poem</a> by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Smart_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth Smart (author)">Elizabeth Smart</a>.</li> <li>The Italian poet <a href="/wiki/Salvatore_Quasimodo" title="Salvatore Quasimodo">Salvatore Quasimodo</a> quoted the psalm in his 1947 poem "On the Boughs of the Willows".</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/If_I_Forget_Thee,_Oh_Earth" title="If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth">If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth</a>", a short story written by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a> and first published in 1951 in the magazine <i>Future</i>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/By_the_River_Piedra_I_Sat_Down_and_Wept" class="mw-redirect" title="By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept">By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept</a></i>, 1994 novel by <a href="/wiki/Paulo_Coelho" title="Paulo Coelho">Paulo Coelho</a>.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Job:_A_Comedy_of_Justice" title="Job: A Comedy of Justice">Job: A Comedy of Justice</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a>, the last line of this psalm is referenced to depict the potential nature of God.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Cohen" title="Leonard Cohen">Leonard Cohen</a> makes several references to the psalm in the song and poem By the Rivers Dark which appears on his 2001 album <i><a href="/wiki/Ten_New_Songs" title="Ten New Songs">Ten New Songs</a></i>, and in his 2006 poetry collection <i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Longing" title="Book of Longing">Book of Longing</a></i>.</li> <li>In Book X, Chapter 7 of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Brothers_Karamazov" title="The Brothers Karamazov">The Brothers Karamazov</a></i>, Captain Snegiryov quotes verses 5 and 6.</li> <li>In the 2010 video game <a href="/wiki/Fallout_New_Vegas" class="mw-redirect" title="Fallout New Vegas">Fallout New Vegas</a>, in the Honest Hearts DLC, Joshua Graham quotes Psalm 137, likening the Babylonian captivity of the Jews to the White Legs' war with two other tribes, the Dead Horses and the Sorrows.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the 2021 debut of the comic, "King Spawn", writer Sean Lewis and Spawn creator Todd McFarlane introduce a cult called "Psalm 137" which initiates a terrorist campaign targeting children.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historical_instances_of_use">Historical instances of use</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Historical instances of use"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Psalm_137" title="Special:EditPage/Psalm 137">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. 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href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass" title="Frederick Douglass">Frederick Douglass</a> compared the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society asking him to deliver their <a href="/wiki/Fourth_of_July" class="mw-redirect" title="Fourth of July">Fourth of July</a> speech to the actions of the antagonists asking the <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a> to sing in a foreign land.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_137&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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href="http://medievalist.net/psalmstxt/ps136.htm">Parallel Latin/English Psalter / Psalmus 136 (137)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170507121752/http://medievalist.net/psalmstxt/ps83.htm">Archived</a> 2017-05-07 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> medievalist.net</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output 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H 171 / psaume / Marc Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180825121451/http://data.bnf.fr/14787420/marc_antoine_charpentier_super_flumina_babylonis__h_171/">Archived</a> 25 August 2018 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <a href="/wiki/French_National_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="French National Library">French National Library</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/Super_flumina_Babylonis,_S.13_(Lalande,_Michel_Richard_de)" class="extiw" title="scores:Super flumina Babylonis, S.13 (Lalande, Michel Richard de)">Super flumina Babylonis, S.13 (Lalande, Michel Richard de)</a>: Scores at the <a href="/wiki/International_Music_Score_Library_Project" title="International Music Score Library Project">International Music Score Library Project</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Terry-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Terry_28-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Terry_28-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTerry" class="citation web cs1">Terry, Charles Sanford. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2057&chapter=197558&layout=html&Itemid=27">"Bach's Chorals. Part III: The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the Organ Works"</a>. <i>oll.libertyfund.org</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 February</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=oll.libertyfund.org&rft.atitle=Bach%27s+Chorals.+Part+III%3A+The+Hymns+and+Hymn+Melodies+of+the+Organ+Works.&rft.aulast=Terry&rft.aufirst=Charles+Sanford&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Foll.libertyfund.org%2F%3Foption%3Dcom_staticxt%26staticfile%3Dshow.php%253Ftitle%3D2057%26chapter%3D197558%26layout%3Dhtml%26Itemid%3D27&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBecker1602" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Cornelius_Becker" title="Cornelius Becker">Becker, Cornelius</a> (1602). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10592735?page=601">"Der CXXXVII. Psal."</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Becker_Psalter" title="Becker Psalter">Der Psalter Dauids Gesangweis: Auff die in Lutherischen Kirchen gewöhnliche Melodeyen zugerichtet</a></i> (in German). Leipzig: Jakob Apel.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Der+CXXXVII.+Psal.&rft.btitle=Der+Psalter+Dauids+Gesangweis%3A+Auff+die+in+Lutherischen+Kirchen+gew%C3%B6hnliche+Melodeyen+zugerichtet&rft.place=Leipzig&rft.pub=Jakob+Apel&rft.date=1602&rft.aulast=Becker&rft.aufirst=Cornelius&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitale-sammlungen.de%2Fde%2Fview%2Fbsb10592735%3Fpage%3D601&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Schütz-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Schütz_30-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Schütz_30-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://heinrich-schuetz-haus.de/swv/sites/swv_242.htm">SWV 242 / Becker Psalter - Psalm 137 - An Wasserflüssen Babylon</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080504165548/http://heinrich-schuetz-haus.de/swv/sites/swv_242.htm">Archived</a> 4 May 2008 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Heinrich-Schütz-Haus</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMatut2011I:_pp.&nbsp;[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidXMJqqjE-9wYCpgPA50_50–55],_[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidDN55DwAAQBAJpgRA1-PA64_64];_II:_pp.&nbsp;[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidDN55DwAAQBAJpgRA1-PA101_101–108]-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMatut2011I:_pp.&nbsp;[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidXMJqqjE-9wYCpgPA50_50–55],_[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidDN55DwAAQBAJpgRA1-PA64_64];_II:_pp.&nbsp;[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidDN55DwAAQBAJpgRA1-PA101_101–108]_31-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMatut2011">Matut 2011</a>, I: pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=XMJqqjE-9wYC&pg=PA50">50–55</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DN55DwAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA64">64</a>; II: pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DN55DwAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA101">101–108</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJohann_Hermann_Schein1627" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Johann_Hermann_Schein" title="Johann Hermann Schein">Johann Hermann Schein</a> (1627). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN778587517?tify={%22pages%22:%5b674%5d,%22view%22:%22info%22}"><i>Cantional, Oder Gesangbuch Augspurgischer Confession</i></a>. Leipzig: Schein. pp. 325–327.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cantional%2C+Oder+Gesangbuch+Augspurgischer+Confession&rft.place=Leipzig&rft.pages=325-327&rft.pub=Schein&rft.date=1627&rft.au=Johann+Hermann+Schein&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fgdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de%2Fid%2FPPN778587517%3Ftify%3D%7B%2522pages%2522%3A%5B674%5D%2C%2522view%2522%3A%2522info%2522%7D&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged December 2022">dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Gottfried_Vopelius" title="Gottfried Vopelius">Gottfried Vopelius</a> (1682). <i><a href="/wiki/Neu_Leipziger_Gesangbuch" class="mw-redirect" title="Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch">Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch</a></i>. Leipzig: Christoph Klinger, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=UmVkAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA706">pp.706–709</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/Becker_Psalter,_Op.5_(Sch%C3%BCtz,_Heinrich)" class="extiw" title="scores:Becker Psalter, Op.5 (Schütz, Heinrich)"><i>Becker Psalter</i>, Op.5 (Schütz, Heinrich)</a>: Scores at the <a href="/wiki/International_Music_Score_Library_Project" title="International Music Score Library Project">International Music Score Library Project</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=50841">Psalmus 136 (137) / Psalm 136 (137)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180705093244/http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=50841">Archived</a> 5 July 2018 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> at <a href="/wiki/LiederNet" class="mw-redirect" title="LiederNet">LiederNet</a> website.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/Psalmen_Davids_sampt_etlichen_Moteten_und_Concerten,_Op.2_(Sch%C3%BCtz,_Heinrich)" class="extiw" title="scores:Psalmen Davids sampt etlichen Moteten und Concerten, Op.2 (Schütz, Heinrich)"><i>Psalmen Davids sampt etlichen Moteten und Concerten</i>, Op.2 (Schütz, Heinrich)</a>: Scores at the <a href="/wiki/International_Music_Score_Library_Project" title="International Music Score Library Project">International Music Score Library Project</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/BNF_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="BNF (identifier)">BnF</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb42964084c.public">42964084c</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://philidor.cmbv.fr/Publications/Catalogues-de-genre/Pierre-I-Ballard-et-Robert-III-Ballard-Imprimeurs-du-roy-pour-la-musique-1599-1673/Recueils/DU-CAURROY-Eustache-1549-1609-MELANGES/(language)/fre-FR/(from)/search">DU CAURROY, Eustache (1549-1609) : MÉLANGES</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200823060538/http://philidor.cmbv.fr/Publications/Catalogues-de-genre/Pierre-I-Ballard-et-Robert-III-Ballard-Imprimeurs-du-roy-pour-la-musique-1599-1673/Recueils/DU-CAURROY-Eustache-1549-1609-MELANGES/(language)/fre-FR/(from)/search">Archived</a> 23 August 2020 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> at <span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://philidor.cmbv.fr">philidor<wbr />.cmbv<wbr />.fr</a></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=109650">Le long des eaux, où se bagne</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180705151047/http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=109650">Archived</a> 5 July 2018 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> at <a href="/wiki/LiederNet" class="mw-redirect" title="LiederNet">LiederNet</a> website.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/Cantiques,_chants,_psaumes_et_hymnes_(Rossi,_Salamone)" class="extiw" title="scores:Cantiques, chants, psaumes et hymnes (Rossi, Salamone)">Cantiques, chants, psaumes et hymnes (Rossi, Salamone)</a>: Scores at the <a href="/wiki/International_Music_Score_Library_Project" title="International Music Score Library Project">International Music Score Library Project</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBuelow2004[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidaw1TTtpp4FwCpgPA298_298]–[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidaw1TTtpp4FwCpgPA299_299]-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBuelow2004[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidaw1TTtpp4FwCpgPA298_298]–[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidaw1TTtpp4FwCpgPA299_299]_41-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBuelow2004">Buelow 2004</a>, pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=aw1TTtpp4FwC&pg=PA298">298</a>–<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=aw1TTtpp4FwC&pg=PA299">299</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDH55250"><i>Matthew Locke: Anthems, Motets and Ceremonial Music</i></a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200930230144/https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDH55250">Archived</a> 30 September 2020 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> at <a href="/wiki/Hyperion_Records" title="Hyperion Records">Hyperion</a> website.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Muses Delight: Catches, Glees, Canzonets and Canons</i> by Philip Hayes (London, 1786)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEStowe2016[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidpd0mDAAAQBAJpgPA68_68–74]-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStowe2016[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidpd0mDAAAQBAJpgPA68_68–74]_44-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFStowe2016">Stowe 2016</a>, pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=pd0mDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA68">68–74</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStowe2012" class="citation journal cs1">Stowe (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/blacmusiresej.32.1.0095">"Babylon Revisited: Psalm 137 as American Protest Song"</a>. <i>Black Music Research Journal</i>. <b>32</b> (1): 95–112. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.5406%2Fblacmusiresej.32.1.0095">10.5406/blacmusiresej.32.1.0095</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/blacmusiresej.32.1.0095">10.5406/blacmusiresej.32.1.0095</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154371943">154371943</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Black+Music+Research+Journal&rft.atitle=Babylon+Revisited%3A+Psalm+137+as+American+Protest+Song&rft.volume=32&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=95-112&rft.date=2012&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A154371943%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F10.5406%2Fblacmusiresej.32.1.0095%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.5406%2Fblacmusiresej.32.1.0095&rft.au=Stowe&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F10.5406%2Fblacmusiresej.32.1.0095&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.orthodoxchoral.org/composers/artemy-vedel?locale=en&page=2">"Vedel, Artemy"</a>. <i>Orthodox Sacred Music Reference Library</i>. p. 2<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">25 February</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Orthodox+Sacred+Music+Reference+Library&rft.atitle=Vedel%2C+Artemy&rft.pages=2&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.orthodoxchoral.org%2Fcomposers%2Fartemy-vedel%3Flocale%3Den%26page%3D2&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=3489">We sat down and wept by the waters</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200927030131/https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=3489">Archived</a> 27 September 2020 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=18519">We sat down and wept by the waters / An den Wassern zu Babel</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180705150623/http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=18519">Archived</a> 5 July 2018 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lieder.net/lieder/assemble_texts.html?SongCycleId=12052">Zwei hebräische Melodien von Lord Byron für eine Singstimme mit Klavierbegleitung</a> at <a href="/wiki/LiederNet" class="mw-redirect" title="LiederNet">LiederNet</a> website.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/Loewe-Album_(Loewe,_Carl)" class="extiw" title="scores:Loewe-Album (Loewe, Carl)"><i>Loewe-Album</i> (Loewe, Carl)</a>, <a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/Lyrische_Fantasien,_Alledorien,_Hymnen_und_Ges%C3%A4nge._Hebr%C3%A4ische_Ges%C3%A4nge_(Loewe,_Carl)" class="extiw" title="scores:Lyrische Fantasien, Alledorien, Hymnen und Gesänge. Hebräische Gesänge (Loewe, Carl)"><i>Lyrische Fantasien, Alledorien, Hymnen und Gesänge</i>. <i>Hebräische Gesänge</i> (Loewe, Carl)</a>, <a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/2_Lieder,_Op.15,_BV_202_(Busoni,_Ferruccio)" class="extiw" title="scores:2 Lieder, Op.15, BV 202 (Busoni, Ferruccio)">2 Lieder, Op.15, BV 202 (Busoni, Ferruccio)</a>: Scores at the <a href="/wiki/International_Music_Score_Library_Project" title="International Music Score Library Project">International Music Score Library Project</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-SchippeStetson2006-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-SchippeStetson2006_49-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCullen_SchippeChuck_Stetson2006" class="citation book cs1">Cullen Schippe; Chuck Stetson (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=u58DyaEIZk4C&pg=PA176"><i>The Bible and Its Influence</i></a>. BLP Publishing. pp. 176–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9770302-0-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-9770302-0-0"><bdi>978-0-9770302-0-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Bible+and+Its+Influence&rft.pages=176-&rft.pub=BLP+Publishing&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-0-9770302-0-0&rft.au=Cullen+Schippe&rft.au=Chuck+Stetson&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Du58DyaEIZk4C%26pg%3DPA176&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Rimm2002-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Rimm2002_50-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRobert_Rimm2002" class="citation book cs1">Robert Rimm (2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Yglj7pFb9UoC&pg=PA300"><i>The Composer-pianists: Hamelin and The Eight</i></a>. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 300–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-57467-072-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-57467-072-1"><bdi>978-1-57467-072-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Composer-pianists%3A+Hamelin+and+The+Eight&rft.pages=300-&rft.pub=Hal+Leonard+Corporation&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-1-57467-072-1&rft.au=Robert+Rimm&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DYglj7pFb9UoC%26pg%3DPA300&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/Super_flumina_Babylonis,_Op.52_(Alkan,_Charles-Valentin)" class="extiw" title="scores:Super flumina Babylonis, Op.52 (Alkan, Charles-Valentin)"><i>Super flumina Babylonis</i>, Op.52 (Alkan, Charles-Valentin)</a>: Scores at the <a href="/wiki/International_Music_Score_Library_Project" title="International Music Score Library Project">International Music Score Library Project</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=28377">Près du fleuve étranger</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180705150637/http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=28377">Archived</a> 5 July 2018 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> at <a href="/wiki/LiederNet" class="mw-redirect" title="LiederNet">LiederNet</a> website.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A8s_du_fleuve_%C3%A9tranger_(Gounod,_Charles)" class="extiw" title="scores:Près du fleuve étranger (Gounod, Charles)">"Près du fleuve étranger" (Gounod, Charles)</a>: Scores at the <a href="/wiki/International_Music_Score_Library_Project" title="International Music Score Library Project">International Music Score Library Project</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47878235">47878235</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/CSM_00741">By Babylon's wave</a> (score) at <a href="/wiki/Archive.org" class="mw-redirect" title="Archive.org">Archive.org</a> website.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=26983">Psalmus 136 (137) / An Babels Wasserflüssen</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180705150612/http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=26983">Archived</a> 5 July 2018 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> at <a href="/wiki/LiederNet" class="mw-redirect" title="LiederNet">LiederNet</a> website.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/3_Psalmlieder,_Op.13_(Cornelius,_Peter)" class="extiw" title="scores:3 Psalmlieder, Op.13 (Cornelius, Peter)">3 Psalmlieder, Op.13 (Cornelius, Peter)</a>: Scores at the <a href="/wiki/International_Music_Score_Library_Project" title="International Music Score Library Project">International Music Score Library Project</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LasterStrommen2003-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-LasterStrommen2003_58-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames_LasterDiana_Reed_Strommen2003" class="citation book cs1">James Laster; Diana Reed Strommen (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Dm8EQytMfU4C&pg=PA211"><i>Catalogue of Vocal Solos and Duets Arranged in Biblical Order</i></a>. Scarecrow Press. p. 73. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-4838-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-4838-2"><bdi>978-0-8108-4838-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Catalogue+of+Vocal+Solos+and+Duets+Arranged+in+Biblical+Order&rft.pages=73&rft.pub=Scarecrow+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-8108-4838-2&rft.au=James+Laster&rft.au=Diana+Reed+Strommen&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DDm8EQytMfU4C%26pg%3DPA211&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.antonin-dvorak.cz/en/biblical-songs">Biblical Songs</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200504133719/http://www.antonin-dvorak.cz/en/biblical-songs">Archived</a> 4 May 2020 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> at <span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.antonin-dvorak.cz">www<wbr />.antonin-dvorak<wbr />.cz</a></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Leytens-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Leytens_60-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeytens" class="citation web cs1">Leytens, Luc. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.svm.be/content/van-nuffel-jules?display=biography&language=en">"Van Nuffel, Jules, Biografie"</a>. <i>Studiecentrum voor Vlaamse Muziek</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 February</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Studiecentrum+voor+Vlaamse+Muziek&rft.atitle=Van+Nuffel%2C+Jules%2C+Biografie&rft.aulast=Leytens&rft.aufirst=Luc&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.svm.be%2Fcontent%2Fvan-nuffel-jules%3Fdisplay%3Dbiography%26language%3Den&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Letellier2017-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Letellier2017_61-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRobert_Ignatius_Letellier2017" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Letellier" title="Robert Letellier">Robert Ignatius Letellier</a> (23 June 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hVwpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA283"><i>The Bible in Music</i></a>. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 283–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4438-6848-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4438-6848-8"><bdi>978-1-4438-6848-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Bible+in+Music&rft.pages=283-&rft.pub=Cambridge+Scholars+Publishing&rft.date=2017-06-23&rft.isbn=978-1-4438-6848-8&rft.au=Robert+Ignatius+Letellier&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DhVwpDwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA283&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Granade2014-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Granade2014_62-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFS._Andrew_Granade2014" class="citation book cs1">S. Andrew Granade (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ktEwBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA225"><i>Harry Partch, Hobo Composer</i></a>. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 225–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-58046-495-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-58046-495-6"><bdi>978-1-58046-495-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Harry+Partch%2C+Hobo+Composer&rft.pages=225-&rft.pub=Boydell+%26+Brewer&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-1-58046-495-6&rft.au=S.+Andrew+Granade&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DktEwBQAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA225&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Laster1996-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Laster1996_63-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames_H._Laster1996" class="citation book cs1">James H. Laster (11 June 1996). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=AYee7Nlbg8kC&pg=PA625"><i>Catalogue of Choral Music Arranged in Biblical Order</i></a>. Scarecrow Press. p. 625. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4617-2664-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4617-2664-7"><bdi>978-1-4617-2664-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Catalogue+of+Choral+Music+Arranged+in+Biblical+Order&rft.pages=625&rft.pub=Scarecrow+Press&rft.date=1996-06-11&rft.isbn=978-1-4617-2664-7&rft.au=James+H.+Laster&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DAYee7Nlbg8kC%26pg%3DPA625&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Amran&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Amran (page does not exist)">David Amran</a> (1969). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=jfs8AQAAIAAJ"><i>By the rivers of Babylon: women's chorus (SSAA) a cappella and soprano solo</i>.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221212192635/https://books.google.com/books?id=jfs8AQAAIAAJ">Archived</a> 12 December 2022 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <a href="/wiki/C._F._Peters" class="mw-redirect" title="C. F. Peters">C. F. Peters</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3YIJAQAAMAAJ"><i>Music: the AGO & RCCO Magazine</i>, Vol. 3 (1969)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221212192635/https://books.google.com/books?id=3YIJAQAAMAAJ">Archived</a> 12 December 2022 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, page 28.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEStowe201651–56,_205-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStowe201651–56,_205_66-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFStowe2016">Stowe 2016</a>, pp. 51–56, 205.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Laird2014-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Laird2014_67-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPaul_R._Laird2014" class="citation book cs1">Paul R. Laird (10 April 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=1uBhAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA38"><i>The Musical Theater of Stephen Schwartz: From Godspell to Wicked and Beyond</i></a>. Scarecrow Press. pp. 38–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-9192-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-9192-0"><bdi>978-0-8108-9192-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Musical+Theater+of+Stephen+Schwartz%3A+From+Godspell+to+Wicked+and+Beyond&rft.pages=38-&rft.pub=Scarecrow+Press&rft.date=2014-04-10&rft.isbn=978-0-8108-9192-0&rft.au=Paul+R.+Laird&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D1uBhAwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA38&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEStowe201656–-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStowe201656–_68-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFStowe2016">Stowe 2016</a>, pp. 56–.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Shenton2018-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Shenton2018_69-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAndrew_Shenton2018" class="citation book cs1">Andrew Shenton (10 May 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ayVTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA54"><i>Arvo Pärt's Resonant Texts: Choral and Organ Music 1956–2015</i></a>. Cambridge University Press. pp. 54–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-107-08245-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-107-08245-8"><bdi>978-1-107-08245-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Arvo+P%C3%A4rt%27s+Resonant+Texts%3A+Choral+and+Organ+Music+1956%E2%80%932015&rft.pages=54-&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2018-05-10&rft.isbn=978-1-107-08245-8&rft.au=Andrew+Shenton&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DayVTDwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA54&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-70">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=o_8JAQAAMAAJ"><i>Music and Musicians</i></a>. 1981. p. 45.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Music+and+Musicians&rft.pages=45&rft.date=1981&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Do_8JAQAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Burger2014-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Burger2014_71-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJeff_Burger2014" class="citation book cs1">Jeff Burger (1 April 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GsD0AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA491"><i>Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters</i></a>. Chicago Review Press. pp. 491–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61374-758-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-61374-758-2"><bdi>978-1-61374-758-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Leonard+Cohen+on+Leonard+Cohen%3A+Interviews+and+Encounters&rft.pages=491-&rft.pub=Chicago+Review+Press&rft.date=2014-04-01&rft.isbn=978-1-61374-758-2&rft.au=Jeff+Burger&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DGsD0AgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA491&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEStowe201663–64-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStowe201663–64_72-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFStowe2016">Stowe 2016</a>, pp. 63–64.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-73">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTavener,_JohnRozario,_PatriciaJosey,_ChristopherSydney_Philharmonia_Choirs2004" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Tavener" title="John Tavener">Tavener, John</a>; <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Rozario" title="Patricia Rozario">Rozario, Patricia</a>; Josey, Christopher; <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Philharmonia_Choirs" title="Sydney Philharmonia Choirs">Sydney Philharmonia Choirs</a> (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9676114">"Lament for Jerusalem a mystical love song"</a> (CD). <a href="/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Australian Broadcasting Corporation">Australian Broadcasting Corporation</a>. ABC 476 160-5<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">6 September</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Lament+for+Jerusalem+a+mystical+love+song&rft.pub=Australian+Broadcasting+Corporation&rft.date=2004&rft.au=Tavener%2C+John&rft.au=Rozario%2C+Patricia&rft.au=Josey%2C+Christopher&rft.au=Sydney+Philharmonia+Choirs&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftrove.nla.gov.au%2Fwork%2F9676114&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LongSawyer2015-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-LongSawyer2015_74-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSiobhán_Dowling_LongJohn_F._A._Sawyer2015" class="citation book cs1">Siobhán Dowling Long; John F. A. Sawyer (3 September 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=gZ5ZCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA38"><i>The Bible in Music: A Dictionary of Songs, Works, and More</i></a>. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 38. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-8452-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-8452-6"><bdi>978-0-8108-8452-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Bible+in+Music%3A+A+Dictionary+of+Songs%2C+Works%2C+and+More&rft.pages=38&rft.pub=Rowman+%26+Littlefield+Publishers&rft.date=2015-09-03&rft.isbn=978-0-8108-8452-6&rft.au=Siobh%C3%A1n+Dowling+Long&rft.au=John+F.+A.+Sawyer&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DgZ5ZCgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA38&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APsalm+137" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.giladhochman.com/music-by-these-rivers">information and recording</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220905162600/https://www.giladhochman.com/music-by-these-rivers">Archived</a> 5 September 2022 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> at the composer's official website.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-76">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJoshua_Aaron2018" class="citation audio-visual cs1">Joshua Aaron (23 April 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7lHsoascJY"><i>Joshua Aaron - Bring Us Back (By The Rivers of Babylon) Psalm 137</i></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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href="/wiki/Straf_mich_nicht_in_deinem_Zorn" title="Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn">Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn</a> (Not in Anger, Mighty God)</li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_12" title="Psalm 12">Psalm 12 (11)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Ach_Gott,_vom_Himmel_sieh_darein" title="Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein">Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein</a> (O Lord, Look Down from Heaven, Behold)</li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_14" title="Psalm 14">Psalm 14 (13)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Es_spricht_der_Unweisen_Mund_wohl" title="Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl">Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl</a> (The Mouth of Fools Doth God Confess)</li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_19" title="Psalm 19">Psalm 19 (18)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Dein_Lob,_Herr,_ruft_der_Himmel_aus" title="Dein Lob, Herr, ruft der Himmel aus">Dein Lob, Herr, ruft der Himmel aus</a></li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_23" title="Psalm 23">Psalm 23 (22)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/The_King_of_Love_My_Shepherd_Is" title="The King of Love My Shepherd Is">The King of Love My Shepherd Is</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Lord%27s_my_Shepherd" class="mw-redirect" title="The Lord's my Shepherd">The Lord's my Shepherd</a>, <a href="/wiki/Der_Herr_ist_mein_getreuer_Hirt" title="Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt">Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt</a> (The Lord is my faithful Shepherd)</li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_31" title="Psalm 31">Psalm 31 (30)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/In_dich_hab_ich_gehoffet,_Herr" title="In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr">In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr</a></li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_36" title="Psalm 36">Psalm 36 (35)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Herr,_deine_G%C3%BCt_ist_unbegrenzt" title="Herr, deine Güt ist unbegrenzt">Herr, deine Güt ist unbegrenzt</a></li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_39" title="Psalm 39">Psalm 39 (38)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Songs_of_Farewell" title="Songs of Farewell">Lord, let me know mine end</a></li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_45" title="Psalm 45">Psalm 45 (44)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Wie_sch%C3%B6n_leuchtet_der_Morgenstern" title="Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern">Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern</a> (How Lovely Shines the Morning Star)</li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_46" title="Psalm 46">Psalm 46 (45)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/A_Mighty_Fortress_Is_Our_God" title="A Mighty Fortress Is Our God">A Mighty Fortress Is Our God</a> (Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott)</li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_67" title="Psalm 67">Psalm 67 (66)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Es_woll_uns_Gott_gen%C3%A4dig_sein" title="Es woll uns Gott genädig sein">Es woll uns Gott genädig sein</a> (May God Bestow on Us His Grace)</li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_90" title="Psalm 90">Psalm 90 (89)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Our_God,_Our_Help_in_Ages_Past" title="Our God, Our Help in Ages Past">Our God, Our Help in Ages Past</a></li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_98" title="Psalm 98">Psalm 98 (97)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Nun_singt_ein_neues_Lied_dem_Herren" title="Nun singt ein neues Lied dem Herren">Nun singt ein neues Lied dem Herren</a></li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_100" title="Psalm 100">Psalm 100 (99)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Old_100th" title="Old 100th">All People that on Earth do Dwell</a> – <a href="/wiki/Nun_jauchzt_dem_Herren,_alle_Welt" title="Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt">Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt</a></li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_103" title="Psalm 103">Psalm 103 (102)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Praise,_my_soul,_the_King_of_heaven" title="Praise, my soul, the King of heaven">Praise, my soul, the King of heaven</a></li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_124" title="Psalm 124">Psalm 124 (123)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/W%C3%A4r_Gott_nicht_mit_uns_diese_Zeit" title="Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit">Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit</a> (If God Had Not Been on Our Side) – <a href="/wiki/Wo_Gott_der_Herr_nicht_bei_uns_h%C3%A4lt" title="Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält">Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält</a></li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_130" title="Psalm 130">Psalm 130 (129)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Aus_tiefer_Not_schrei_ich_zu_dir" title="Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir">Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir</a> (Out of the Depths I Cry to Thee)</li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_133" title="Psalm 133">Psalm 133 (132)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Hine_Ma_Tov" title="Hine Ma Tov">Hine Ma Tov</a></li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_136" title="Psalm 136">Psalm 136 (135)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Let_us_with_a_gladsome_mind" title="Let us with a gladsome mind">Let us with a gladsome mind</a></li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Psalm 137 (136)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/An_Wasserfl%C3%BCssen_Babylon" title="An Wasserflüssen Babylon">An Wasserflüssen Babylon</a> (By the rivers of Babylon)</li> <li><span style="background-color: #ddddff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_138" title="Psalm 138">Psalm 138 (137)</a></span>: <a href="/wiki/Mein_ganzes_Herz_erhebet_dich" title="Mein ganzes Herz erhebet dich">Mein ganzes Herz erhebet dich</a></li> 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35">35 (34)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_36" title="Psalm 36">36 (35)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_37" title="Psalm 37">37 (36)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_38" title="Psalm 38">38 (37)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_39" title="Psalm 39">39 (38)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_40" title="Psalm 40">40 (39)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_41" title="Psalm 41">41 (40)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_42" title="Psalm 42">42 (41)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_43" title="Psalm 43">43 (42)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_44" title="Psalm 44">44 (43)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_45" title="Psalm 45">45 (44)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_46" title="Psalm 46">46 (45)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_47" title="Psalm 47">47 (46)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_48" title="Psalm 48">48 (47)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_49" title="Psalm 49">49 (48)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_50" title="Psalm 50">50 (49)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_51" 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title="Psalm 143">143 (142)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_144" title="Psalm 144">144 (143)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_145" title="Psalm 145">145 (144)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_146" title="Psalm 146">146 (145)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_147" title="Psalm 147">147 (146–147)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_148" title="Psalm 148">148</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_149" title="Psalm 149">149</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_150" title="Psalm 150">150</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Biblical_apocrypha" title="Biblical apocrypha">Apocrypha</a> or<br /><a href="/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books" title="Deuterocanonical books">Deuterocanonical</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_151" title="Psalm 151">151</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Orthodox">Eastern Orthodox</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalms_152%E2%80%93155" title="Psalms 152–155">152–155</a> (<a href="/wiki/Syriac_Orthodox" class="mw-redirect" title="Syriac Orthodox">Syriac Orthodox</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalms_of_Solomon" title="Psalms of Solomon">Psalms of Solomon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethan_(biblical_figure)" title="Ethan (biblical figure)">Ethan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heman_the_Ezrahite" title="Heman the Ezrahite">Heman the Ezrahite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalms_of_Asaph" title="Psalms of Asaph">Asaph</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Types of psalm</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Psalms_of_Asaph" title="Psalms of Asaph">Psalms of Asaph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_of_communal_lament" title="Psalm of communal lament">Communal lament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imprecatory_Psalms" title="Imprecatory Psalms">Imprecatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Invitatory" title="Invitatory">Invitatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laudate_psalms" title="Laudate psalms">Laudate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penitential_Psalms" class="mw-redirect" title="Penitential Psalms">Penitential</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_psalms" title="Royal psalms">Royal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Song_of_Ascents" title="Song of Ascents">Song of Ascents</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Terminology</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" 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