Psalm 137:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down, and there we wept when we remembered Zion.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we [captives] sat down, yes, we wept when we [earnestly] remembered Zion [the city of our God imprinted on our hearts].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion.

Common English Bible

¹ Alongside Babylon’s streams, there we sat down, crying because we remembered Zion.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Of David himself. O Lord, I will confess to you with my whole heart, for you have heard the words of my mouth. I will sing psalms to you in the sight of the Angels.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ For David himself. I will praise thee, O lord, with my whole heart: for thou hast heard the words of my mouth. I will sing praise to thee in the sight of his angels:

Psalm 137:1 Cross References

Ezra 8:21

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the River Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our possessions.

Ezra 8:31

Then we left the River Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month to go to Jerusalem; the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes along the way.

Nehemiah 2:3

I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my ancestors’ graves, lies waste and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

Psalm 42:4

These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

Isaiah 66:10

Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her—

Jeremiah 13:4

“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go now to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”

Jeremiah 15:17

I did not sit in the company of merrymakers, nor did I rejoice; under the weight of your hand I sat alone, for you had filled me with indignation.

Jeremiah 51:13

You who live by mighty waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from far and wide in the land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” (“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their foreign idols?”)

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my courage; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed.

Lamentations 2:18

Cry aloud to the Lord! O wall of daughter Zion! Let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite!

Lamentations 3:48

My eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of my people.

Lamentations 3:51

My eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the young women in my city.

Ezekiel 1:1

In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the River Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

Ezekiel 1:3

the word of the Lord came to the priest Ezekiel son of Buzi in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Chebar, and the hand of the Lord was on him there.

Ezekiel 3:15

I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who lived by the River Chebar. And I sat there among them, stunned, for seven days.

Daniel 9:3

Then I turned to the Lord God to seek an answer by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 19:41

As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it,

Revelation 11:3

And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, wearing sackcloth.”