My LORD’s BiblePsalms 137
1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
עַל נַהֲרֹות ׀ בָּבֶל שָׁם יָשַׁבְנוּ גַּם־בָּכִינוּ בְּזָכְרֵנוּ אֶת־צִיֹּון׃ (2476)
See also: Psalms 126:5, Nehemiah 1:4, Ezekiel 1:1, Ezekiel 3:15, Psalms 52:1, Isaiah 44:4, Lamentations 2:10-11, Lamentations 2:18, Lamentations 3:48, Ezekiel 1:3, Ezra 8:15, Ezra 8:21, Ezra 8:31, Nehemiah 1:3-4, Nehemiah 2:3, Job 2:12-13, Psalms 42:4, Psalms 102:9-14, Jeremiah 13:17-18, Jeremiah 15:17
2We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
עַל־עֲרָבִים בְּתֹוכָהּ תָּלִינוּ כִּנֹּרֹותֵינוּ׃ (2093)
See also: Ezekiel 26:13, Psalms 149:3, Isaiah 24:8, Revelation 18:22, 1 Chronicles 23:30, Psalms 33:2, Psalms 81:2, Daniel 6:18, Amos 8:10
3For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
כִּי שָׁם שְׁאֵלוּנוּ שֹׁובֵינוּ דִּבְרֵישִׁ־יר וְתֹולָלֵינוּ שִׂמְחָה שִׁירוּ לָנוּ מִשִּׁיר צִיֹּון׃ (4062)
See also: Luke 21:6, Psalms 9:14, Lamentations 2:15-16, Micah 3:12, 1 Chronicles 16:7, Nehemiah 4:2, Psalms 65:1, Psalms 79:1, Psalms 80:6, Psalms 123:3-4, Isaiah 35:10, Jeremiah 8:21, Jeremiah 9:11, Jeremiah 26:18, Jeremiah 31:12-13, Revelation 14:1-3, 1 Chronicles 15:27, 2 Chronicles 29:27, Proverbs 25:20, Isaiah 26:1
4How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?
אֵיךְ נָשִׁיר אֶת־שִׁיר־יְהוָה עַל אַדְמַת נֵכָר׃ (2343)
See also: Isaiah 22:12, Amos 8:3, Hosea 9:4, Lamentations 5:14-15, 1 Samuel 4:13, Ecclesiastes 3:4, Isaiah 49:21
5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
אִם־אֶשְׁכָּחֵךְ יְרוּשָׁלִָם תִּשְׁכַּח יְמִינִי׃ (1824)
See also: Jeremiah 51:50, Psalms 122:9, Daniel 6:10-11, Psalms 84:10, Psalms 122:5-9, Isaiah 62:1, Zechariah 11:17, Exodus 26:31, Deuteronomy 26:15, 1 Samuel 4:22, 2 Samuel 15:14, Nehemiah 1:2-4, Nehemiah 2:2-3, Psalms 51:18, Psalms 84:1-2, Psalms 102:13-14, Psalms 102:14, Isaiah 62:6-7, Daniel 9:20
6If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
תִּדְבַּק־לְשֹׁונִי ׀ לְחִכִּי אִם־לֹא אֶזְכְּרֵכִי אִם־לֹא אַעֲלֶה אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלִַם עַל רֹאשׁ שִׂמְחָתִי׃ (3824)
See also: Psalms 122:6, Isaiah 66:13, Job 29:10, Ezekiel 3:26, Psalms 22:15, Isaiah 66:10, Nehemiah 2:3, Psalms 84:10, Isaiah 41:17, Isaiah 62:1, Lamentations 4:4, 1 Kings 5:7, Job 31:22, 1 Thessalonians 3:7-9, Matthew 6:33, Acts 20:24, Philippians 1:20
7Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
זְכֹר יְהוָה ׀ לִבְנֵי אֱדֹום אֵת יֹום יְרוּשָׁלִָם הָאֹמְרִים עָרוּ ׀ עָרוּ עַד הַיְסֹוד בָּהּ׃ (2453)
See also: Lamentations 4:21-22, Isaiah 63:1, Genesis 8:1, Ezekiel 35:5, Jeremiah 49:7-22, Ezekiel 25:12-14, Obadiah 1:10-14, 1 Samuel 15:2, Psalms 74:18, Ezekiel 35:2, Amos 1:11, Obadiah 1:11, Habakkuk 3:13, Exodus 17:14, Isaiah 34:5-6, Obadiah 1:1, Obadiah 1:18-21, Hosea 7:2, Matthew 7:2, Psalms 79:8-12
8O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
בַּת־בָּבֶל הַשְּׁדוּדָה אַשְׁרֵי שֶׁיְשַׁלֶּם־לָךְ אֶת־גְּמוּלֵךְ שֶׁגָּמַלְתְּ לָנוּ׃ (3360)
See also: Revelation 18:6, Isaiah 47:1, Jeremiah 30:16, Obadiah 1:15, Esther 8:11, Isaiah 14:4-24, Jeremiah 25:12-14, Hosea 13:16, Joshua 6:21, Isaiah 21:1, Revelation 14:8-11, Ezra 6:12, Psalms 54:5, Psalms 109:12, Psalms 149:6-9, Psalms 149:7, Psalms 149:9, Isaiah 13:1-22, Isaiah 13:16, Isaiah 14:20
9Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
אַשְׁרֵי ׀ שֶׁיֹּאחֵז וְנִפֵּץ אֶת־עֹלָלַיִךְ אֶל־הַסָּלַע׃ (1820)
See also: Isaiah 13:16, Hosea 13:16, Nahum 3:10, 2 Kings 8:12, Hosea 10:14, Luke 19:44, Isaiah 13:12, Jeremiah 48:4, Jeremiah 51:3