# General Information:

Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-poetry]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])

# By the rivers of Babylon

"Next to one of the rivers near Babylon"

# we sat ... wept ... we thought ... we hung

The writer does not include the readers. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-exclusive]])

# On the poplars there

Poplar trees do not grow in Israel. "Poplars" may here stand for all the trees in Babylon. AT: "On the trees in Babylon" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/babylon]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/zion]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/harp]]