Psalms 137:2
On the willows in the midst of it, We hung up our harps.
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- Isa 24:8 : 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.
- Ezek 26:13 : 13 I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard.
- Amos 8:10 : 10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; And I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, And baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, And the end of it like a bitter day.
- Rev 18:22 : 22 The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.
- Ps 33:2 : 2 Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
- Ps 81:2 : 2 Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, The pleasant lyre with the harp.
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1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
- Ps 137:3-64 verses84%
3 For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
4 How can we sing Yahweh's song in a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget its skill.
6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you; If I don't prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
- Ps 126:1-44 verses72%
1 > When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, We were like those who dream.
2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great things for them."
3 Yahweh has done great things for us, And we are glad.
4 Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh, Like the streams in the Negev.
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31 Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
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7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over the brook of the willows.
- Lam 5:15-173 verses70%
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
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3 With the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, And with the melody of the lyre.
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4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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2 Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, The pleasant lyre with the harp.
- Ps 124:2-54 verses69%
2 If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, When men rose up against us;
3 Then they would have swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
4 Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, The stream would have gone over our soul;
5 Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
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18 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
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3 "Let's break their bonds apart, And cast away their cords from us."
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5 Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp, With the harp and the voice of melody.
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22 The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.
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17 All this has come on us, Yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.
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2 Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
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2 Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem;
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14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
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9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the [battle] shout is fallen.
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4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [on] our fields and our vineyards.
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19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
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12 The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.
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6 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar:
7 "We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool.
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7 Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
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11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
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9 For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins of it, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
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6 You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
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9 For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
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4 In that day they will take up a parable against you, And lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"
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5 Who strum on the strings of a harp; Who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
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11 It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.
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27 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
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20 Yahweh is [ready] to save me: Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.
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10 The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycamores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.