Psalm 137:2 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

² On the willows there we hung up our harps.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² We hanged our harps Upon the willows in the midst thereof.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² On the willow trees in the midst of [Babylon] we hung our harps.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps.

Common English Bible

² We hung our lyres up in the trees there

Catholic Public Domain Version

² 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.

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 tambourine, 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

I will silence the music of your songs; 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 on 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 harpists and minstrels and of flutists and trumpeters will be heard in you no more; and an artisan of any trade will be found in you no more; and the sound of the millstone will be heard in you no more;