Psalm 137:3

The Passion Translation

Our captors tormented us, saying, “Make music for us and sing one of your happy Zion-songs!”

Cross References

Psalm 65:1

O God in Zion, to you even silence is praise! You who answers prayer, all of humanity comes before you with their requests.

Psalm 79:1

God, won’t you do something? Barbarians have invaded your inheritance. Your temple of holiness has been violated, and Jerusalem has been left in ruins.

Psalm 80:6

You’ve made us a thorn in the side of all the neighboring lands, and now they just laugh at us with their mocking scorn.

Psalm 9:14

Then I will sing your praises as I pass through the gates of the Daughter of Zion, rejoicing in your deliverance!

Proverbs 25:20

When you sing a song of joy to someone suffering in the deepest grief and heartache, it can be compared to disrobing in the middle of a blizzard or rubbing salt in a wound.

Isaiah 35:10

Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return with glee to Zion. They will enter with a song of rejoicing and be crowned with everlasting joy. Ecstatic joy will overwhelm them; weariness and grief will disappear!

Isaiah 51:11

Do it again! Those Yahweh has set free will return to Zion and come celebrating with songs of joy! They will be crowned with never-ending joy! Gladness and joy will overwhelm them; despair and depression will disappear!

Jeremiah 26:18

“In the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, the prophet Micah of Moresheth prophesied to all the people of Judah, ‘Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, declares: “ ‘Zion will be plowed under like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the Temple Mount will be covered with overgrowth.’

Jeremiah 9:11

“I, Yahweh, will turn Jerusalem into rubble, a den of jackals. And I will turn the cities of Judah into ghost towns where no one lives.”

Luke 21:6

“The day of utter destruction will come to everything you admire here. It will all become a heap of rubble!”