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Psalms 137 (NET)
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Psalms 137:11By the rivers of Babylon we sit down and weep when we remember Zion.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 1:1Ezek 3:15Ezek 1:3Lam 2:10-11Lam 2:18Lam 3:48Ezra 8:21Ezra 8:31Jer 13:17-18Jer 15:17
Psalms 137:22On the poplars in her midst we hang our harps,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 26:13Isa 24:8Rev 18:22Amos 8:10Ps 33:2Ps 81:2
Psalms 137:33for there our captors ask us to compose songs; those who mock us demand that we be happy, saying: “Sing for us a song about Zion!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 21:6Lam 2:15-16Mic 3:12Ps 9:141 Chr 16:7Isa 35:10Jer 26:18Jer 31:12-13Jer 9:11Neh 4:2
Psalms 137:44How can we sing a song to the Lord in a foreign land?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 8:3Isa 22:12Hos 9:4Lam 5:14-15Eccl 3:4Isa 49:21
Psalms 137:55If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand be crippled.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 6:10-11Jer 51:50Isa 62:1Ps 122:5-9Ps 84:10Zech 11:17Isa 62:6-7Neh 1:2-4Neh 2:2-3Ps 102:13-14
Psalms 137:66May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, and do not give Jerusalem priority over whatever gives me the most joy.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 3:26Ps 22:15Isa 41:17Job 29:10Ps 84:10Lam 4:41 Thess 3:7-9Acts 20:24Matt 6:33Phil 1:20
Psalms 137:77Remember, O Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. They said, “Tear it down, tear it down, right to its very foundation!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lam 4:21-22Ezek 25:12-14Jer 49:7-22Obad 1:10-141 Sam 15:2Amos 1:11Ezek 35:2Hab 3:13Ps 74:18Exod 17:14
Psalms 137:88O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated, how blessed will be the one who repays you for what you dished out to us.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 18:6Isa 14:4-24Jer 25:12-14Isa 21:1Isa 47:1-15Rev 14:8-11Isa 13:1-22Isa 44:28Jer 50:1-51:64Ps 149:6-9
Psalms 137:99How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies and smashes them on a rock.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 13:16Hos 13:16Nah 3:102 Kgs 8:12Hos 10:14
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