Psalm 137:3 - New International Version (Anglicised)

³ for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, ‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion!’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; And they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For there they who led us captive required of us a song with words, and our tormentors and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For there they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

Common English Bible

³ because that’s where our captors asked us to sing; our tormentors requested songs of joy: “Sing us a song about Zion!” they said.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ On whatever day that I will call upon you: hear me. You will multiply virtue in my soul.

Psalm 137:3 Tagairtí Cros

1 Chronicles 15:27

Now David was clothed in a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and as were the musicians, and Kenaniah, who was in charge of the singing of the choirs. David also wore a linen ephod.

1 Chronicles 16:7

That day David first appointed Asaph and his associates to give praise to the Lord in this manner:

Nehemiah 4:2

and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, ‘What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble – burned as they are?’

Psalm 65:1

Praise awaits you, our God, in Zion; to you our vows will be fulfilled.

Psalm 79:1

O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.

Psalm 80:6

You have made us an object of derision to our neighbours, and our enemies mock us.

Psalm 9:14

that I may declare your praises in the gates of Daughter Zion, and there rejoice in your salvation.

Proverbs 25:20

Like one who takes away a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar poured on a wound, is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

Isaiah 35:10

and those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Isaiah 51:11

Those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Jeremiah 26:18

‘Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah, “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘ “Zion will be ploughed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.”

Jeremiah 9:11

‘I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; and I will lay waste the towns of Judah so that no-one can live there.’

Micah 3:12

Therefore because of you, Zion will be ploughed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.

Luke 21:6

‘As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one of them will be thrown down.’