Psalms 137:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

My tongue doth cleave to my palate, If I do not remember thee, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.

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  • Ezek 3:26 : 26 and thy tongue I cause to cleave unto thy palate, and thou hast been dumb, and art not to them for a reprover, for a rebellious house `are' they.
  • Ps 22:15 : 15 Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.
  • Ps 84:10 : 10 For good `is' a day in Thy courts, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, In the house of my God, Than to dwell in tents of wickedness.
  • Isa 41:17 : 17 The poor and the needy are seeking water, And there is none, Their tongue with thirst hath failed, I, Jehovah do answer them, The God of Israel -- I forsake them not.
  • Lam 4:4 : 4 Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none.
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.
  • Phil 1:20 : 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,
  • 1 Thess 3:7-9 : 7 because of this we were comforted, brethren, over you, in all our tribulation and necessity, through your faith, 8 because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord; 9 for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?
  • Job 29:10 : 10 The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved.

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  • Ps 137:4-5
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    4How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?

    5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!

  • 7Remember, Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, The day of Jerusalem, Those saying, `Rase, rase to its foundation!'

  • 8Be instructed, O Jerusalem, Lest My soul be alienated from thee, Lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.

  • Isa 62:6-7
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    6`On thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, All the day, and all the night, Continually, they are not silent.' O ye remembrancers of Jehovah, Keep not silence for yourselves,

    7And give not silence to Him, Till He establish, and till He make Jerusalem A praise in the earth.

  • 6Ask ye the peace of Jerusalem, At rest are those loving thee.

  • Ps 122:2-3
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    2Our feet have been standing in thy gates, O Jerusalem!

    3Jerusalem -- the builded one -- `Is' as a city that is joined to itself together.

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

  • 1To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?

  • 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.

  • 19In the courts of the house of Jehovah, In thy midst, O Jerusalem, praise ye Jah!

  • 12Glorify, O Jerusalem, Jehovah, Praise thy God, O Zion.

  • 139Cut me off hath my zeal, For mine adversaries forgot Thy words.

  • Isa 49:14-15
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    14And Zion saith, `Jehovah hath forsaken me, And my Lord hath forgotten me.'

    15Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one -- the son of her womb? Yea, these forget -- but I -- I forget not thee.

  • 18Do good in Thy good pleasure with Zion, Thou dost build the walls of Jerusalem.

  • 6I have spread forth my hands unto Thee, My soul `is' as a weary land for Thee. Selah.

  • 7In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.

  • 50Ye escaped of the sword, go on, stand not, Remember ye from afar Jehovah, And let Jerusalem come up on your heart.

  • 6If I have remembered Thee on my couch, In the watches -- I meditate on Thee.

  • 8For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For their tongue and their doings `are' against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of His glory.

  • 6In me doth my soul bow itself, Therefore I remember Thee from the land of Jordan, And of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

  • 20Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me.

  • 1A Song of the Ascents. Remember, Jehovah, for David, all his afflictions.

  • 21Blessed `is' Jehovah from Zion, Inhabiting Jerusalem -- praise ye Jah!

  • 16`O Lord, according to all Thy righteous acts, let turn back, I pray Thee, Thine anger and Thy fury from Thy city Jerusalem, Thy holy mount, for by our sins, and by the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Thy people `are' for a reproach to all our neighbours;

  • 5For who hath pity on thee, O Jerusalem? And who doth bemoan for thee? And who turneth aside to ask of thy welfare?

  • 9Thus do I mar the excellency of Judah, And the great excellency of Jerusalem.

  • 4Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation.

  • 16In Thy statutes I delight myself, I do not forget Thy word.

  • 17And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.

  • Ps 102:4-5
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    4Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

    5From the voice of my sighing Hath my bone cleaved to my flesh.

  • 4These I remember, and pour out my soul in me, For I pass over into the booth, I go softly with them unto the house of God, With the voice of singing and confession, The multitude keeping feast!

  • 15Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.

  • 2Mourned hath Judah, and her gates have languished, They have mourned to the earth, And the cry of Jerusalem hath gone up.

  • 25How is it not left -- the city of praise, The city of my joy!

  • Jer 23:39-40
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    39Therefore, lo, I -- I have taken you utterly away, And I have sent you out, And the city that I gave to you, And to your fathers, from before My face,

    40And I have put on you reproach age-during, And shame age-during that is not forgotten!

  • 10Thy holy cities have been a wilderness, Zion a wilderness hath been, Jerusalem a desolation.

  • 15Thou, Thou hast known, O Jehovah, Remember me, and inspect me, And take vengeance for me of my pursuers, In Thy long-suffering take me not away, Know -- I have borne for Thee reproach.

  • 1For Zion's sake I am not silent, And for Jerusalem's sake I do not rest, Till her righteousness go out as brightness, And her salvation, as a torch that burneth.

  • 14Be mindful of me, O my God, for this, and do not blot out my kind acts that I have done, for the house of my God, and for its charges.

  • 22And I -- I have said in my haste, `I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

  • 32Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me days without number.

  • 9And I said, `I do not mention Him, Nor do I speak any more in His name,' And it hath been in my heart As a burning fire shut up in my bones, And I have been weary of containing, And I am not able.

  • 17And if ye do not hear it, In secret places doth my soul weep, because of pride, Yea, it weepeth sore, And the tear cometh down mine eyes, For the flock of Jehovah hath been taken captive.

  • 2`Go, and thou hast called in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah: I have remembered for thee The kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, Thy going after Me in a wilderness, in a land not sown.