Psalms 137:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers -- joy: `Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'

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  • 1 Chr 15:27 : 27 And David is wrapped in an upper robe of fine linen, and all the Levites who are bearing the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah head of the burden of the singers; and on David `is' an Ephod of linen.
  • 1 Chr 16:7 : 7 On that day then hath David given at the beginning to give thanks to Jehovah by the hand of Asaph and his brethren: --
  • Neh 4:2 : 2 and saith before his brethren and the force of Samaria, yea, he saith, `What `are' the weak Jews doing? are they left to themselves? do they sacrifice? do they complete in a day? do they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish? -- and they burnt!'
  • Ps 9:14 : 14 So that I recount all Thy praise, In the gates of the daughter of Zion. I rejoice on Thy salvation.
  • Ps 65:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. A Song. To Thee, silence -- praise, O God, `is' in Zion, And to Thee is a vow completed.
  • Ps 79:1 : 1 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into Thy inheritance, They have defiled Thy holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps,
  • Ps 80:6 : 6 Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors, And our enemies mock at it.
  • Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt, 4 Greatly hath our soul been filled With the scorning of the easy ones, With the contempt of the arrogant!
  • Isa 35:10 : 10 And the ransomed of Jehovah return, And have entered Zion with singing. And joy age-during on their head, Joy and gladness they attain, And fled away have sorrow and sighing!
  • Isa 51:11 : 11 And the ransomed of Jehovah turn back, And they have come to Zion with singing, And joy age-during `is' on their head, Gladness and joy they attain, Fled away have sorrow and sighing,
  • Jer 9:11 : 11 And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.
  • Jer 26:18 : 18 `Micah the Morashtite hath been prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he saith unto all the people of Judah, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Zion is a plowed field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mountain of the house is for high places of a forest.
  • Jer 31:12-13 : 12 And they have come in, And have sung in the high place of Zion, And flowed unto the goodness of Jehovah, For wheat, and for new wine, and for oil, And for the young of the flock and herd, And their soul hath been as a watered garden, And they add not to grieve any more. 13 Then rejoice doth a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men -- together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above their sorrow,
  • Lam 2:15-16 : 15 Clapped hands at thee have all passing by the way, They have hissed -- and they shake the head At the daughter of Jerusalem: `Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?' 16 Opened against thee their mouth have all thine enemies, They have hissed, yea, they gnash the teeth, They have said: `We have swallowed `her' up, Surely this `is' the day that we looked for, We have found -- we have seen.'
  • Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house `is' for high places of a forest!
  • Luke 21:6 : 6 `These things that ye behold -- days will come, in which there shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.'
  • Rev 14:1-3 : 1 And I saw, and lo, a Lamb having stood upon the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousands, having the name of his Father written upon their foreheads; 2 and I heard a voice out of the heaven, as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of great thunder, and a voice I heard of harpers harping with their harps, 3 and they sing, as it were, a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders, and no one was able to learn the song except the hundred forty-four thousands, who have been bought from the earth;

Similar Verses (AI)

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    4How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?

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    1By rivers of Babylon -- There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

    2On willows in its midst we hung our harps.

  • Ps 126:1-4
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    1A Song of the Ascents. In Jehovah's turning back `to' the captivity of Zion, We have been as dreamers.

    2Then filled `with' laughter is our mouth, And our tongue `with' singing, Then do they say among nations, `Jehovah did great things with these.'

    3Jehovah did great things with us, We have been joyful.

    4Turn again, O Jehovah, `to' our captivity, As streams in the south.

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    71%

    18And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.

    19For -- a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles.

  • Ps 53:6
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    6Who doth give from Zion the salvation of Israel? When God turneth back `to' a captivity of His people, Jacob doth rejoice -- Israel is glad!

  • Lam 5:15
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    15Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.

  • Lam 1:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3Removed hath Judah because of affliction, And because of the abundance of her service; She hath dwelt among nations, She hath not found rest, All her pursuers have overtaken her between the straits.

    4The ways of Zion are mourning, Without any coming at the appointed time, All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted -- and she hath bitterness.

  • Ps 106:46
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    46And He appointeth them for mercies Before all their captors.

  • Lam 1:18
    69%

    18Righteous is Jehovah, For His mouth I have provoked. Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and see my pain, My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

  • Job 30:31
    68%

    31And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.

  • Isa 65:14
    68%

    14Lo, My servants sing from joy of heart, And ye cry from pain of heart, And from breaking of spirit ye do howl.

  • Neh 9:36-37
    2 verses
    68%

    36`Lo, we -- to-day -- `are' servants, and the land that Thou hast given to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its good -- lo, we `are' servants on it,

    37and its increase it is multiplying to the kings whom Thou hast set over us in our sins; and over our bodies they are ruling, and over our cattle, according to their pleasure, and we `are' in great distress.

  • Lam 5:8
    68%

    8Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

  • Isa 35:10
    68%

    10And the ransomed of Jehovah return, And have entered Zion with singing. And joy age-during on their head, Joy and gladness they attain, And fled away have sorrow and sighing!

  • Jer 14:19
    68%

    19Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah? Zion hath Thy soul loathed? Wherefore hast Thou smitten us, And there is no healing to us? Looking for peace, and there is no good, And for a time of healing, and lo, terror.

  • Ps 80:6
    68%

    6Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors, And our enemies mock at it.

  • Neh 5:4-5
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    4And there are who are saying, `We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, `on' our fields, and our vineyards;

    5and now, as the flesh of our brethren `is' our flesh, as their sons `are' our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards `are' to others.'

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    67%

    9for servants we `are', and in our servitude our God hath not forsaken us, and stretcheth out unto us kindness before the kings of Persia, to give to us a quickening to lift up the house of our God, and to cause its wastes to cease, and to give to us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

  • Lam 1:7
    67%

    7Remembered hath Jerusalem `In' the days of her affliction and her mournings, all her desirable things that were from the days of old, In the falling of her people into the hand of an adversary, And she hath no helper; Seen her have adversaries, They have laughed at her cessation.

  • Lam 3:14
    67%

    14I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.

  • Isa 14:3
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    3And it hath come to pass, In the day of Jehovah's giving rest to thee, From thy grief, and from thy trouble, And from the sharp bondage, That hath been served upon thee,

  • Ps 81:2
    67%

    2Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.

  • Amos 6:5
    67%

    5Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music;

  • Ps 124:3
    67%

    3Then alive they had swallowed us up, In the burning of their anger against us,

  • 2 Chr 6:37
    67%

    37and they have turned `it' back unto their heart in the land whither they have been taken captive, and have turned back, and made supplication unto Thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have done wickedly;

  • Mic 2:4
    67%

    4In that day doth `one' take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my people He doth change, How doth He move toward me! To the backslider our fields He apportioneth.

  • Isa 64:11
    67%

    11Our holy and our beautiful house, Where praise Thee did our fathers, Hath become burnt with fire, And all our desirable things have become a waste.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    67%

    9And lo, fallen have our fathers by the sword, and our sons, and our daughters, and our wives `are' in captivity for this.

  • Isa 51:11
    67%

    11And the ransomed of Jehovah turn back, And they have come to Zion with singing, And joy age-during `is' on their head, Gladness and joy they attain, Fled away have sorrow and sighing,

  • Isa 52:9
    67%

    9Break forth, sing together, O wastes of Jerusalem, For Jehovah hath comforted His people, He hath redeemed Jerusalem.

  • Neh 12:27
    67%

    27And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them in to Jerusalem, to make the dedication even with gladness, and with thanksgivings, and with singing, `with' cymbals, psalteries, and with harps;

  • Ps 14:7
    67%

    7`Who doth give from Zion the salvation of Israel? When Jehovah doth turn back `To' a captivity of His people, Jacob doth rejoice -- Israel is glad!

  • Lam 5:4-5
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    67%

    4Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.

    5For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.

  • Jer 31:12
    66%

    12And they have come in, And have sung in the high place of Zion, And flowed unto the goodness of Jehovah, For wheat, and for new wine, and for oil, And for the young of the flock and herd, And their soul hath been as a watered garden, And they add not to grieve any more.

  • Isa 42:22
    66%

    22And this `is' a people seized and spoiled, Snared in holes -- all of them, And in houses of restraint they were hidden, They have been for a prey, And there is no deliverer, A spoil, and none is saying, `Restore.'

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    66%

    29Singing is to you as in a night sanctified for a festival, And joy of heart as he who is going with a pipe, To go in to the mountain of Jehovah, Unto the rock of Israel.

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    8O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us.

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    14Wherefore are we sitting still? Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced cities, And we are silent there, For Jehovah our God hath made us silent, Yea, He causeth us to drink water of gall, For we have sinned against Jehovah.

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    66%

    19Lo, the voice of a cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off, Is Jehovah not in Zion? is her king not in her? Wherefore have they provoked Me with their graven images, With the vanities of a foreigner?

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    66%

    33Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Oppressed are the sons of Israel, And the sons of Judah together, And all their captors have kept hold on them, They have refused to send them away.

  • Neh 4:4
    66%

    4Hear, O our God, for we have been despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them for a spoil in a land of captivity;