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Psalms 137:1

Psalms chapter 137 · verse 1 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion.

Context

v.1This passage

v.2Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Daniel 9:3

    And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

  • Job 2:12

    And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

  • Psalms 102:9

    For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,

  • Ezra 8:31

    Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the lier-in-wait by the way.

  • Jeremiah 15:17

    I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.

  • Isaiah 66:10

    Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn over her;