Self-interpreting Bible

1 BY ^athe rivers of Babylon, there we ^bsat down, yea, we wept, when ^cwe remembered Zion.

• a: Ge. 2:10 - 14 , Eze. 1:1 , Da. 8:1
• b: Job 2:12 , La. 2:10 , Je. 15:17
• c: Ps. 42:4 , Je. 51:50 , Zep. 3:10

2 We ^dhanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

• d: La. 5:15 , La. 1:16 , La. 1:17 , La. 2:5 , La. 2:10 , La. 3:1 , La. 3:49

3 For ^ethere they that carried us away captive ^*required of us ¹a song; and they that ²wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

• e: Ps. 79:1 , Ps. 44:13 - 16 , Je. 9:11 , La. 2:15 , La. 2:16
• *: required-asked.
• 1: Heb. the words of a song.
• 2: Heb. laid us on heaps.

4 How ^fshall we sing the LORD's song in a ^3*strange land?

• f: Am. 8:3 , La. 5:15 , Mat. 7:6 , Ne. 2:3
• 3: Heb. land of a stranger.
• *: strange-foreign.

5 If ^gI forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her ^*cunning.

• g: Da. 6:10 , Da. 6:11 , Je. 51:50 , Ne. 1:3 , Ne. 1:4 , Psalms 122 , 2Co. 11:28 , 2Co. 11:29 , Phi. 2:4 , Phi. 2:21 , Job 31:22 , 1Sa. 4:19 , 1Sa. 4:21 , 1Sa. 4:22
• *: cunning-skill, art.

6 If I do not remember thee, let my ^htongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; ⁱif I prefer not Jerusalem above ⁴my chief joy.

• h: Job 29:10
• i: Ps. 84:10
• 4: Heb. the head of my joy.

7 ^jRemember, O LORD, ^kthe chil-dren of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, ^5*Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

• j: 1Sa. 15:2 , Ho. 7:2
• k: Ob. vs. 10 - 14 , Je. 49:7 - 22 , Eze. 25:12 - 14 , La. 4:22 , Mal. 1:4
• 5: Heb. Make bare.
• *: rase-demolish.

8 O daughter of Babylon, ^lwho art to be ⁶destroyed; happy shall he be, ⁷that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

• l: Isaiah 13 , Isaiah 14 , Isaiah 21 , Isaiah 47 , Jeremiah 50 , Jeremiah 51 , Re. 18:6
• 6: Heb. wasted.
• 7: Heb. that recompenseth unto thee thy deed which thou didst to us.

9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and ^mdasheth thy little ones against ⁸the stones.

• m: Is. 13:16 , Ho. 10:14 , Ho. 13:16 , Re. 2:23 , Re. 13:10
• 8: Heb. the rock.