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sing to his name, y for it is pleasant! 1. 4 For the Lord has z chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his a own possession. 5 For I know that b the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods. 6 c Whatever the Lord pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.
Psalm 137. New Life Version. Israel in a Strange Land. 137 We sat down and cried by the rivers of Babylon when we remembered Zion. 2 There upon the trees we put our harps. 3 For those who held us there made us sing. And those who made it hard for us asked for joy.
1By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. 2On the willows a there. we hung up our lyres. 3For there our captors. required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”.
Psalm 137 How Shall We Sing the Lord 's Song? 1 By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 On the willows 1 there we hung up our lyres. 3 For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
Read Psalm 137 in the English Standard Version, a lament of the exiles in Babylon who long for Zion. See the commentary, footnotes and daily verse podcast for this psalm.
Psa 137:1 - By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. Psa 137:2 - On the willows [fn] there we hung up our lyres. Psa 137:3 - For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”.
Read Psalm 137 in the English Standard Version (ESV) of the Bible. This psalm expresses the grief and longing of the exiles for Zion and Jerusalem, and curses their enemies.
