Psalm 137:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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 fall from the shoulder blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.

Psalm 22:15

My Strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Psalm 84:10

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Isaiah 41:17

The poor and needy seek water and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst; I the LORD will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

Lamentations 4:4

The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

Ezekiel 3:26

and I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.

Matthew 6:33

But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Acts 20:24

But I hold not my life of any account, as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Philippians 1:20

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.