Psalm 137:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² 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

Give thanks unto the LORD with harp: Sing praises unto him with the psaltery of ten strings.

Psalm 81:2

Take up the psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.

Isaiah 24:8

The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

Ezekiel 26:13

And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

Amos 8:10

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

Revelation 18:22

And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee; and the voice of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;