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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)

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