Psalms 137
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2 On the willows in that land, we hung up our harps.
3 For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4 How can we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.
6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
7 Remember, LORD, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”
8 Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us.
9 Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.
Cross-references
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- 1Ezk 1:1, Ezk 3:15, Lam 2:18, Ezk 1:3, Lam 2:10–11, Lam 3:48, Lam 1:16, Psa 102:9–14
- 2Ezk 26:13, Isa 24:8, Rev 18:22, Psa 81:2, Psa 33:2, Amo 8:10
- 3Luk 21:6, Lam 2:15–16, Psa 9:14, Mic 3:12, Jer 26:18, Jer 9:11, Psa 123:3–4, Neh 4:2
- 4Isa 22:12, Amo 8:3, Hos 9:4, Lam 5:14–15, Isa 49:21, Ecc 3:4
- 5Jer 51:50, Dan 6:10–11, Psa 122:5–9, Psa 84:10, Isa 62:1, Zec 11:17, Isa 62:6–7, Neh 2:2–3
- 6Ezk 3:26, Psa 22:15, Isa 41:17, Job 29:10, Psa 84:10, Lam 4:4, 1Th 3:7–9, Php 1:20
- 7Lam 4:21–22, Jer 49:7–22, Ezk 25:12–14, Oba 1:10–14, Amo 1:11, 1Sa 15:2, Hab 3:13, Psa 74:18
- 8Rev 18:6, Isa 14:4–24, Jer 25:12–14, Isa 21:1, Isa 47:1–15, Rev 14:8–11, Isa 13:1–22, Jer 50:1–51:64
- 9Isa 13:16, Nam 3:10, Hos 13:16, Hos 10:14, 2Ki 8:12