Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.
New American Standard Bible
May my right hand
King James Version
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
Holman Bible
may my right hand forget its skill.
International Standard Version
If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.
A Conservative Version
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget.
American Standard Version
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her skill .
Amplified
If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
Let my right hand forget [her skill with the harp].
Darby Translation
If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill;
Julia Smith Translation
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten.
King James 2000
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning.
Lexham Expanded Bible
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget.
Modern King James verseion
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my righthand forget her cunning.
NET Bible
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand be crippled!
New Heart English Bible
If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.
The Emphasized Bible
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right-hand forget:
Webster
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her skill.
World English Bible
If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.
Youngs Literal Translation
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!
Themes
Babylon » Grief of the jews in
Forgetting God » The people of God
Home » Examples of love of » The jews in exile
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 137:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lament During The Babylonian Exile
4 How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land? 5 If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art. 6 If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.
Names
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:2-4
That Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah; and in answer to my request for news of the Jews who had been prisoners and had got away, and of Jerusalem,
Nehemiah 2:2-3
And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing that you are not ill? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was full of fear;
Psalm 84:1-2
How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies!
Psalm 84:10
For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.
Isaiah 62:1
Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.
Isaiah 62:6-7
I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest,
Jeremiah 51:50
You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.
Daniel 6:10-11
And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; (now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem;) and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before.
Zechariah 11:17
A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.