Psalm 137:3 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

³ For there a song required they, who did us captive bring: Our spoilers call'd for mirth, and said, A song of Sion sing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; And they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For there they who led us captive required of us a song with words, and our tormentors and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For there they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

Common English Bible

³ because that’s where our captors asked us to sing; our tormentors requested songs of joy: “Sing us a song about Zion!” they said.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ On whatever day that I will call upon you: hear me. You will multiply virtue in my soul.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me: thou shall multiply strength in my soul.

Psalm 137:3 Cross References

Psalm 65:1

Praise waits for thee in Sion, Lord: to thee vows paid shall be.

Psalm 79:1

O God, the heathen enter'd have thine heritage; by them Defiled is thy house: on heaps they laid Jerusalem.

Psalm 80:6

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours round about; Our enemies among themselves at us do laugh and flout.

Psalm 9:14

That I, in Sion's daughters' gates, may all thy praise advance; And that I may rejoice always in thy deliverance.