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Psalms 137:2

Psalms chapter 137 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.1By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion.

v.2This passage

v.3For there they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

Cross references

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

  • Revelation 18:22

    And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee; and the voice of a mill shall be heard no more at all in thee;

  • Psalms 81:2

    Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.

  • Ezekiel 26:13

    And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

  • Amos 8:10

    And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

  • Isaiah 24:8

    The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

  • Psalms 33:2

    Give thanks unto Jehovah with the harp: Sing praises unto him with the psaltery of ten strings.