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# General Information:
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Parallelism is common in Hebrew poetry. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-poetry]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# By the rivers of Babylon
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"Next to one of the rivers near Babylon"
# we sat ... wept ... we thought ... we hung
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The writer does not include the readers. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-exclusive]])
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# On the poplars there
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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
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/babylon]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/zion]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/harp]]
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