Psalm 137:3

English Standard Version 2016

For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

Cross References

Luke 21:6

“As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

Micah 3:12

Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.

Jeremiah 26:18

“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “‘Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.’

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Isaiah 35:10

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Psalm 80:6

You make us an object of contention for our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

Psalm 79:1

O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

Psalm 65:1

Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed.

Psalm 9:14

that I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in your salvation.

Nehemiah 4:2

And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”

1 Chronicles 16:7

Then on that day David first appointed that thanksgiving be sung to the Lord by Asaph and his brothers.

Isaiah 51:11

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

1 Chronicles 15:27

David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as also were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers and Chenaniah the leader of the music of the singers. And David wore a linen ephod.

Proverbs 25:20

Whoever sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, and like vinegar on soda.