# General Information:

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

# By the rivers of Babylon

"Next to one of the rivers near Babylon"

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

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