Psalms 137:2

Bishops' Bible (1568)

We hanged our harpes on the Salon trees: in the mydst of it.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 24:8 : 8 The myrth of tabrettes is layde downe, the noyse of such as haue made mery is ceassed, the ioy at the harpe is at an ende.
  • Ezek 26:13 : 13 Thus will I cause the sounde of thy songues to ceasse, and the noyse of thy harpes shall no more be hearde.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turne your feastes into mourning, and all your songues into lamentation: and I will bring sackecloth vpon all loynes, and baldnesse vpon euery head, & I will make it as the mourning of an only sonne, and the end therof as a bitter day.
  • Rev 18:22 : 22 And the voyce of harpers, and musitions, & of pypers, and trumpetters, shall be heard no more in thee, and no craftes man, of whatsoeuer craft he be, shall be founde any more in thee, and the sounde of a myll shall be heard no more in thee:
  • Ps 33:2 : 2 Confesse it to god with the harpe: sing psalmes vnto hym with the viall, and with the instrument of ten stringes.
  • Ps 81:2 : 2 Take the psalterie: bryng hyther the tabret, the merie harpe, with the lute.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 By the waters of Babylon we sat downe there: also we wept when we remembred Sion.

  • Ps 137:3-6
    4 verses
    84%

    3 For there they that led vs away captiue required of vs some matter of a song: and for our waylynges myrth, saying sing vs one of the songes of Sion.

    4 He aunswered howe can we sing one of the songes of God: in another lande besides our owne?

    5 If I forget thee O Hierusalem: let my right hande forget her cunning.

    6 Let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth, if I do not remember thee: yea if I preferre not thee O Hierusalem aboue my most myrth.

  • Ps 126:1-4
    4 verses
    72%

    1 A song of high degrees. When God shall cause them of Sion that were led into captiuitie for to returne: we shalbe as men that dreamed.

    2 Then shall our mouth be filled with a laughter: and our tongue with a ioyfull noyse. Then shall suche as be amongst the Heathen say: God hath brought great thinges to passe, that he myght do for them.

    3 God hath brought great thinges to passe for vs: we be made merie.

    4 Make vs O God that be led into captiuitie: for to returne as riuers into the south.

  • 31 My harpe is turned to mourning, and my organs into the voyce of them that weepe.

  • 7 Therfore the goodes that remayneth in Moab, and the riches therof, they shall cary to the brooke of wyllowes.

  • Lam 5:15-17
    3 verses
    70%

    15 The ioy of our heart is gone, our melodious meeting is turned into mourning.

    16 The garlande of our head is fallen: alas that euer we sinned so sore.

    17 Therefore our heart is full of heauinesse, and our eyes dimme.

  • 3 Upon an instrument of ten strynges, and vpon the Lute: vpon the Harpe with a solemne sounde.

  • Lam 5:4-6
    3 verses
    69%

    4 We are fayne to drinke our owne water for money, and our owne wood must we buy for money.

    5 Our neckes are vnder persecution, we are weery and haue no rest.

    6 Aforetime we yeelded our selues to the Egyptians, and nowe to the Assyrians, onlye that we might haue bread inough.

  • 2 Take the psalterie: bryng hyther the tabret, the merie harpe, with the lute.

  • Ps 124:2-5
    4 verses
    69%

    2 if God him self had not ben of our side when men rose vp against vs,

    3 Then they had swalowed vs vp quicke: when their wrath was so inflamed against vs.

    4 Then the waters had drowned vs: the running streame had flowed ouer our soule.

    5 Then the waters of the proude: had flowed ouer our soule.

  • Jer 9:18-19
    2 verses
    68%

    18 And sing a mourning song of vs, that the teares may fall out of our eyes, and that our eye liddes may gushe out of water.

    19 For there is a lamentable noyse heard of Sion: O howe are we so sore destroyed? O howe are we so pitiously confounded? We must forsake our owne naturall countrey, and we are shut out of our owne lodginges.

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    3 Let vs breake say they their bondes a sunder: and cast away their cordes from vs.

  • 5 Syng psalmes vnto God playing vpon an harpe: vpon an harpe, and with the sounde of a psalterie.

  • 22 The trees couer him with their shadowe, and the wyllowes of the brooke compasse him about.

  • 17 And though all this be come vpon vs: yet we do not forget thee, nor shewe our selues to be false in thy couenaunt.

  • 2 Confesse it to god with the harpe: sing psalmes vnto hym with the viall, and with the instrument of ten stringes.

  • 2 Our feete shall stande in thy gates: O Hierusalem.

  • 14 Why prolong we the time? Let vs gather our selues together, and go into the strong citie, there shall we be in rest: for the Lorde our God hath put vs to scilence, and geuen vs water mixt with gall to drinke, because we haue sinned against hym.

  • 9 Therfore wyll I mourne for Iazer, and for the vine of Sibma, I wyl poure my teares vpon thee O Hesbon and Eleale: for the crye of thyne enemies is fallen vpon thy sommer fruites, and vpon thy haruest.

  • 4 But some there were that saide: We haue borowed money for the kinges tribute, and that vpon our landes & vineyardes.

  • Ps 44:19-20
    2 verses
    66%

    19 no not when thou hast smitten vs in the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadowe of death.

    20 If we had forgotten the name of our Lorde, and holden vp our handes to any straunge god:

  • 12 The foules of the ayre haue their habitation nigh vnto them: singing out of the midst of the bowes of trees.

  • Ps 132:6-7
    2 verses
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    6 Beholde, we hearde it to be at Ephratha: we founde it in the fieldes of the forest.

    7 We wyll go into his tabernacle: and fall downe on our knees before his footestoole.

  • 7 Our soule is escaped, euen as a byrde out of the snare of the fouler: the snare is broken, and we be escaped.

  • 11 Our holy house whiche is our beautie where our fathers praysed thee, is brent vp: yea, all our commodities and pleasures are wasted away.

  • 9 For we were bondmen, and yet our God hath not forsaken vs in our bondage, but hath enclined mercie vnto vs in the sight of the king of Persia, to geue vs lyfe to set vp the house of our God, and to redresse the desolation therof, and to geue vs a wall in Iuda and Hierusalem.

  • 6 Thou hast made vs a strife vnto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh vs to scorne.

  • 9 For loe, our fathers were ouerthrowen with the sword, and our sonnes, our daughters, and our wyues were caried away captiue for the same cause.

  • 4 In that day shal this parable be vsed, and a mourning shalbe made ouer you on this maner: We be vtterly desolate, the portion of my people is translated: how wyll he parte vnto vs the lande that he hath taken from vs?

  • 5 They sing to the sounde of the viole, they inuent to them selues instrumentes of musicke, like Dauid.

  • 11 She stretched out her braunches vnto the sea: and her bowes vnto the riuer.

  • 27 And in the dedication of the wall at Hierusalem they fought the Leuites out of all their places, that they might be brought to Hierusalem, to kepe the dedication and gladnesse with thankesgeuinges, & singing, with cymbales, psalteries, and harpes.

  • 20 To heale me it is the Lordes worke, and we will sing my songes in the house of the Lorde all the dayes of our lyfe.

  • 10 The tyle worke is fallen downe, but we wyll buylde it with squared stones: the Mulberie timber is broken, but we shall set it vp agayne with Cedar.