John Trapp on Psalms 137:1

PSAL. CXXXVII.

VErſ. 1 By the rivers of Babylon] Tigr[illegible: 1 letter]s & Euphrates; for the land of Shinar (where Babel was founded, and afterwards Babylon built) was, as moſt Geographers think, a part of the Garden of Eden, fruitfull beyond credulity; but to the poor captives all this was no comfort, when they remembred the deſolations of their Country, and the loſs of their former liberty. The bird of Paradiſe, they ſay, once taken and encaged, groaneth unceſſantly, till ſhee dye.

There wee ſat down, yea wee wep[illegible: 1 letter] ] Hee ſitteth alone, and keepeth ſilence, becauſe hee hath born it upon him, ſaith Jeremy of the Mourner, Lam. 3.28. who is much in meditation; ſo were theſe, bewailing bitterly their ſin and miſery, with their bowels ſounding as an harp, Iſa. 16.1. where if one ſtring bee touched, all the reſt ſound.

When wee remembred Zion] The former ſolemnities, the preſent deſolations.