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Background Information on Babylon
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq about 85 kilometers south of modern day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia, with its rulers establishing two important empires in antiquity, namely the 19th–16th century BC Old Babylonian Empire and the 7th–6th century BC Neo-Babylonian Empire, and the city would also be used as a regional capital of other empires, such as the Achaemenid Empire.
Hymns Recommended by Experts
The first verse of Psalm 137 is set to a profoundly simple and evocative Jewish lament that can be sung as a three-part round, or canon.
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A heartrending lament set to a Latvian folk tune. Stanzas 1-3 are balanced with the hope of stanza 4, and together form a prayer for all refugees, prisoners, and oppressed people.
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A metrical setting of Psalm 137, a lament over the heartbreaking destruction of Jerusalem and exile in Babylon
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