Psalm 137:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

On the willows there we hung up our lyres.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

On the willow trees in the midst of [Babylon] we hung our harps.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

We hung our lyres up in the trees there

Catholic Public Domain Version

I will adore before your holy temple, and I will confess your name: it is above your mercy and your truth. For you have magnified your holy name above all.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to thy name. For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy holy name above all.

Psalm 137:2 Cross References

Psalm 33:2

Praise the Lord with the lyre, make melody to him with the harp of ten strings!

Psalm 81:2

Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.

Isaiah 24:8

The mirth of the timbrels is stilled, the noise of the jubilant has ceased, the mirth of the lyre is stilled.

Ezekiel 26:13

And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.

Amos 8:10

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

Revelation 18:22

and the sound of harpers and minstrels, of flute players and trumpeters, shall be heard in thee no more; and a craftsman of any craft shall be found in thee no more; and the sound of the millstone shall be heard in thee no more;