Background of the classic English song "River of Babylon

It was 586 B.C. when Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylon, conquered the Jewish Kingdom of Jerusalem and destroyed the Jewish temple on Mount Zion, which is the "Mount of Zion" (some people think Zion refers to the holy city of Jerusalem, which is actually the same thing, meaning the homeland).

The Babylonians drove the Jews to Babylon and forced them to sing songs of joy on the banks of the Babylonian River, but the Jews, who had been uprooted from their homeland and displaced, and who had lost their freedom, did not have the heart to sing and dance in a strange place. The Babylonian slavers cut off the hands of the Jewish captives.

So the Jews were forced to weep under the stars in a foreign land, and to sing their praises to the Lord and their longing for freedom with the words of their hearts and mouths.

The song's upbeat tempo is dedicated to the conquerors, but the lyrics are recorded in their own tragic history of suffering, and so have been passed down for thousands of years.

Hey, you wrote it wrong, wasn't this song a pop hit in the 1970s and 1980s? How did it circulate for thousands of years?

Actually, most of the lyrics of this song are from Psalm 137 of the Bible, which has been passed down for more than thousands of years.

Any piece of history in the world can be distorted, but as long as it hasn't been erased, then it will always make a comeback, just like "Rivers of Babylon".