Psalms 137:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.

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  • Neh 1:2-4 : 2 That Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah; and in answer to my request for news of the Jews who had been prisoners and had got away, and of Jerusalem, 3 They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire. 4 Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,
  • Neh 2:2-3 : 2 And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing that you are not ill? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was full of fear; 3 And said to the king, May the king be living for ever: is it not natural for my face to be sad, when the town, the place where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, has been made waste and its doorways burned with fire?
  • Ps 84:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies! 2 The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.
  • Ps 84:10 : 10 For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.
  • Ps 102:13-14 : 13 You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted. 14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.
  • Ps 122:5-9 : 5 For there seats for the judges were placed, even the rulers' seats of the line of David. 6 O make prayers for the peace of Jerusalem; may they whose love is given to you do well. 7 May peace be inside your walls, and wealth in your noble houses. 8 Because of my brothers and friends, I will now say, Let peace be with you. 9 Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will be working for your good.
  • Isa 62:1 : 1 Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.
  • Isa 62:6-7 : 6 I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest, 7 And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.
  • Jer 51:50 : 50 You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.
  • Dan 6:10-11 : 10 For this reason King Darius put his name on the writing and the order. 11 And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; (now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem;) and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before.
  • Zech 11:17 : 17 A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.

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  • Ps 137:6-7
    2 verses
    89%

    6 If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.

    7 O Lord, keep in mind against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; how they said, Let it be uncovered, uncovered even to its base.

  • Isa 49:14-16
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    75%

    14 But Zion said, The Lord has given me up, I have gone from his memory.

    15 Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.

    16 See, your name is marked on my hands; your walls are ever before me.

  • Ps 77:9-10
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    73%

    9 Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)

    10 And I said, It is a weight on my spirit; but I will keep in mind the years of the right hand of the Most High.

  • Ps 137:4
    73%

    4 How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?

  • Jer 6:8
    73%

    8 Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.

  • Ps 44:20
    72%

    20 If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

  • Ps 119:109
    72%

    109 My soul is ever in danger; but I still keep the memory of your law.

  • Ps 13:1
    71%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

  • Jer 2:32
    71%

    32 Is it possible for a virgin to put out of her memory her ornaments, or a bride her robes? but my people have put me out of their memories for unnumbered days.

  • Lam 5:20
    71%

    20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

  • Jer 23:39-40
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    71%

    39 For this reason, truly, I will put you completely out of my memory, and I will put you, and the town which I gave to you and to your fathers, away from before my face:

    40 And I will give you a name without honour for ever, and unending shame which will never go from the memory of men.

  • Ps 143:5-6
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    70%

    5 I keep in mind the early days of the past, giving thought to all your acts, even to the work of your hands.

    6 My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)

  • Jer 51:50
    70%

    50 You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.

  • Jer 15:5
    70%

    5 For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? and who will have sorrow for you? or who will go out of his way to see how you are?

  • Job 31:22
    70%

    22 May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.

  • Ps 10:12
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    12 Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.

  • Ps 137:1
    69%

    1 By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion,

  • Zeph 3:16
    69%

    16 In that day it will be said to Jerusalem, Have no fear: O Zion, let not your hands be feeble.

  • Lam 1:7
    69%

    7 Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.

  • Ps 7:3
    69%

    3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

  • Ps 122:6
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    6 O make prayers for the peace of Jerusalem; may they whose love is given to you do well.

  • Isa 62:6
    69%

    6 I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest,

  • Ps 80:17
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    17 Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

  • Ps 119:139
    69%

    139 My passion has overcome me; because my haters are turned away from your words.

  • Ps 139:10
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    10 Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me.

  • Ps 121:5
    69%

    5 The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand.

  • Song 8:3
    69%

    3 His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand about me.

  • Ps 122:2
    69%

    2 At last our feet were inside your doors, O Jerusalem.

  • Ps 74:11
    69%

    11 Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe?

  • Ps 60:5
    68%

    5 So that your loved ones may be made safe, let your right hand be my salvation, and give me an answer.

  • Ps 138:8
    68%

    8 The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands.

  • Ps 25:7
    68%

    7 Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

  • Song 2:6
    68%

    6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.

  • Ps 119:176
    68%

    176 I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.

  • Ps 119:16
    68%

    16 I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.

  • Ps 118:16
    68%

    16 The right hand of the Lord is lifted up; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.

  • Isa 23:16
    68%

    16 Take an instrument of music, go about the town, O loose woman who has gone out from the memory of man; make sweet melody with songs, so that you may come back to men's minds.

  • Ps 44:17
    68%

    17 All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.

  • Lam 3:17
    68%

    17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

  • Ps 63:8
    68%

    8 My soul keeps ever near you: your right hand is my support.

  • Ps 50:22
    68%

    22 Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:

  • Job 19:14
    68%

    14 My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

  • Isa 44:21
    68%

    21 Keep these things in mind, O Jacob; and you Israel, for you are my servant: I have made you; you are my servant; O Israel, I will not let you go out of my memory.

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    67%

    1 <A Song of the going up.> Lord, give thought to David, and to all his troubles;