137:3 For there they that carried us away captive {c} required of us a song; and they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.
(c) The Babylonians speak thus in mocking us, as though by our silence we should signify that we hoped no more in God.
137:3 A song - Such songs as you used to sing in the temple of Zion.
137:1-4 Their enemies had carried the Jews captive from their own land. To complete their woes, they insulted over them; they required of them mirth and a song. This was very barbarous; also profane, for no songs would serve but the songs of Zion. Scoffers are not to be compiled with. They do not say, How shall we sing, when we are so much in sorrow? but, It is the Lord's song, therefore we dare not sing it among idolaters.
