Psalm 137:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I remember you not, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy! [Ezek. 3:26.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember thee not; If I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy.

Common English Bible

⁶ Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t make Jerusalem my greatest joy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ For the Lord is exalted, and he looks with favor on the humble. But the lofty he knows from a distance.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off.

Psalm 137:6 Cross References

Job 29:10

the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

Job 31:22

then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.

Psalm 22:15

my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; thou dost lay me in the dust of death.

Psalm 84:10

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Isaiah 41:17

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

Lamentations 4:4

The tongue of the nursling cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.

Ezekiel 3:26

and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be dumb and unable to reprove them; for they are a rebellious house.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.

Acts 20:24

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may accomplish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

Philippians 1:20

as it is my eager expectation and hope that I shall not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.