Psalm 137:2
◄  Psalm 137:2  ►
We hanged our harps on the willows in the middle thereof.

we hanged. Willows were so plentiful at Babylon on the banks of the Euphrates, that Isaiah calls it the brook or river of willows.

Psalm 33:2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing to him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

Psalm 81:2 Take a psalm, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

Isaiah 24:8 The mirth of tabrets ceases, the noise of them that rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.

Ezekiel 26:13 And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard.

Amos 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins...

Revelation 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in you; and no craftsman...

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
There we hung up our lyres on the poplar trees,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Upon the willows in the midst of it We hung our harps.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

International Standard Version (©2012)
On the willows there we hung our harps,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
We hung our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

American King James Version
We hanged our harps on the willows in the middle thereof.

American Standard Version
Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps.

Douay-Rheims Bible
On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.

Darby Bible Translation
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

English Revised Version
Upon the willows in the midst thereof we hanged up our harps.

Webster's Bible Translation
We hung our harps upon the willows in the midst of it.

World English Bible
On the willows in its midst, we hung up our harps.

Young's Literal Translation
On willows in its midst we hung our harps.

Leviticus 23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.


Job 30:31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Isaiah 24:8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
Isaiah 44:4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
Ezekiel 26:13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

There we hung up our lyres on the poplar trees, —HCSB

Upon the willows in the midst of it We hung our harps. —NASB

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. —KJV


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Hanged Hanging Harps Hung Instruments Lyres Midst Music Poplars Thereof Trees Willows
Psalms Chapter 137 Verse 2

Alphabetical: harps hung in it midst of on our poplars the There Upon we willows

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