KJV King James Version
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
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Psalm 137:2
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
There on the willows we hung our harps,
WEB World English Bible
On the willows in its midst, we hung up our harps.
ASV American Standard Version
Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
On willows in its midst we hung our harps.
Surrounding context — Psalm 137
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
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.
4 How shall we sing the LORD’S song in a strange land?
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [her cunning].
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Ezekiel 26:13And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.Isaiah 24:8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.Revelation 18:22And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft [he be], shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;Amos 8:10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter day.Psalm 81:2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.Psalm 33:2Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings.
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