Psalm 137:2 - The Scriptures 1998

We hung our lyres Upon the willows in the midst of it.

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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 יהוה  with the lyre; Sing to Him with an instrument of ten strings.

Psalm 81:2

Lift up a song and beat the tambourine, The pleasant lyre and with the harp.

Isaiah 24:8

The joy of the tambourine shall cease, the noise of those who rejoice shall end, the joy of the lyre shall cease.

Ezekiel 26:13

‘And I shall cause the sound of your songs to cease, and let the sound of your lyres be heard no more.

Amos 8:10

and shall turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation, and bring sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head, and shall make it like mourning for an only son, and its end like a day of bitterness.

Revelation 18:22

“And the sound of harpists, and musicians, and flutists, and trumpeters shall not be heard in you any more at all. And no craftsman of any trade shall be found in you any more at all. And the sound of a millstone shall not be heard in you any more at all.