Psalms 137

1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
2 There on the poplars we hung our harps,
3 for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4 How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.
6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.
7 Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. “Tear it down,” they cried, “tear it down to its foundations!”
8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us.
9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

Cross References 18

  • 1. Ezekiel 1:1,3; Ezekiel 3:15; Ezekiel 10:15
  • 2. Nehemiah 1:4
  • 3. Isaiah 3:26; Lamentations 1:4
  • 4. S Leviticus 23:40
  • 5. Job 30:31; Isaiah 24:8; Ezekiel 26:13; Amos 6:5
  • 6. Psalms 79:1-4; Lamentations 1:5
  • 7. S Job 30:9; Psalms 80:6
  • 8. Ezekiel 16:57; Ezekiel 22:4; Ezekiel 34:29
  • 9. S Nehemiah 12:46
  • 10. Isaiah 2:3; Isaiah 56:7; Isaiah 65:11; Isaiah 66:20
  • 11. S Psalms 22:15; Ezekiel 3:26
  • 12. Nehemiah 2:3
  • 13. S Deuteronomy 4:29; Jeremiah 51:50; Ezekiel 6:9
  • 14. S Genesis 25:30; S 2 Chronicles 28:17; S Psalms 83:6; Jeremiah 49:7; Lamentations 4:21-22; Ezekiel 25:12
  • 15. 2 Kings 25:1-10; Obadiah 1:11
  • 16. Psalms 74:8
  • 17. Isaiah 13:1,19; Isaiah 47:1-15; Jeremiah 25:12,26; Jeremiah 50:1; Jeremiah 50:2-51:58; Jer Jeremiah 50:15; Revelation 18:6
  • 18. S 2 Kings 8:12; S Isaiah 13:16; Luke 19:44

Psalms 137 Commentaries

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