Psalm 137:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

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.

1 Chronicles 16:7

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

Nehemiah 4:2

And he said in the presence of his brethren and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore things? 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?”

Psalm 65:1

Praise is due to thee, O God, in Zion; and to thee shall vows be performed,

Psalm 79:1

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

Psalm 80:6

Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.

Psalm 9:14

that I may recount all thy praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in thy deliverance.

Proverbs 25:20

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

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 joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

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 joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

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.”

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.

Luke 21:6

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