Thematic Bible




Psalm 137:1 (show verse)

There we sat down and cried by the rivers of Babylon as we remembered Zion.

Psalm 137:2 (show verse)

On the willows there we hung our harps,

Psalm 137:3 (show verse)

for it was there that our captors asked us for songs and our torturers demanded joy from us, "Sing us one of the songs about Zion!"

Psalm 137:4 (show verse)

How are we to sing the song of the LORD on foreign soil?

Psalm 137:5 (show verse)

If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.

Psalm 137:6 (show verse)

May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you, if I don't consider Jerusalem to be more important than my highest joy.

Psalm 137:7 (show verse)

Remember the day of Jerusalem's fall, LORD, because of the Edomites, who kept saying, "Tear it down! Tear it right down to its foundations!"

Psalm 137:8 (show verse)

Daughter of Babylon! You devastator! How blessed will be the one who pays you back for what you have done to us.

Psalm 137:9 (show verse)

How blessed will be the one who seizes your young children and pulverizes them against the cliff!