Psalms 137:6

If I do not remember thee,.... In prayer, in discourse, in conversation; this is the same as before, to forget, repeated for the confirmation of it;

let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; as…

If I do not remember thee - Equivalent to, “If I forget thee.” If I ever fail to remember thee; if I shall ever act as if I had forgotten thee. Singing in a strange land, among those who had…

We have here the daughter of Zion covered with a cloud, and dwelling with the daughter of Babylon; the people of God in tears, but sowing in tears. Observe,

I. The mournful posture they were in as to…

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,

If I remember thee not (R.V.).

Let all power of speech and song desert me. Cp. Job 29:10.

if I prefer not&c. Lit. if I exalt not Jerusalem above my…