psalm 137

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Psalm 137New International Version (NIV)



Psalm 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:

1. Psalm 137:1 : Eze 1:1, 3; 3:15; 10:15
   
2. Psalm 137:1 : Ne 1:4
   
3. Psalm 137:1 : Isa 3:26; La 1:4
   
4. Psalm 137:2 : S Lev 23:40
   
5. Psalm 137:2 : Job 30:31; Isa 24:8; Eze 26:13; Am 6:5
   
6. Psalm 137:3 : Ps 79:1-4; La 1:5
   
7. Psalm 137:3 : S Job 30:9; Ps 80:6
   
8. Psalm 137:3 : Eze 16:57; 22:4; 34:29
   
9. Psalm 137:4 : S Ne 12:46
   
10. Psalm 137:5 : Isa 2:3; 56:7; 65:11; 66:20
    
11. Psalm 137:6 : S Ps 22:15
    
12. Psalm 137:6 : Ne 2:3
    
13. Psalm 137:6 : S Dt 4:29; Jer 51:50; Eze 6:9
    
14. Psalm 137:7 : S Ge 25:30; S 2Ch 28:17; S Ps 83:6; La 4:21-22
    
15. Psalm 137:7 : 2Ki 25:1-10; Ob 1:11
    
16. Psalm 137:7 : Ps 74:8
    
17. Psalm 137:8 : Isa 13:1, 19; 47:1-15; Jer 25:12, 26; 50:1; 50:2-51:58
    
18. Psalm 137:9 : S 2Ki 8:12; S Isa 13:16; Lk 19:44
    

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