Exiles Weep by the Rivers of Babylon

Prompt

Psalm 137: By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song. A small group of Judean exiles sits large and central on the bank of a broad river in Babylon at evening, a young man with his head bowed in his hands, a woman weeping, an old Levite gazing westward toward home, their wooden harps hanging silent on the branches of the willows above them; a Babylonian guard in the background gestures for them to sing. The distant ziggurat and walls of Babylon glow in the sunset, reflected in the calm water. Sorrowful and beautiful. The men wear wrapped turbans or head-cloths over their hair. Style: a blend of photo-realism and cinema, like a still from a big-budget film. Bright, rich, saturated, luminous colour, clear daylight or glowing golden light even in dramatic scenes, never murky or muddy, crisp detail, real human faces full of emotion, shallow depth of field, subtle film grain. Simple, uncluttered composition: ONE clear scene from this chapter, with the chapter's main character or characters large, close and central in the upper and middle frame, and a simple background. No montage, no collage, no inset vignettes, no crowd of small figures competing for attention. Historically accurate ancient Near Eastern clothing, architecture and landscape. Keep the bottom quarter of the frame simple and uncluttered (ground, water or sky) so a large chapter number can be set over it. Absolutely no text, no letters, no words, no numbers, no logos, no watermark, no border, no frame.