PSALMS 137

Psalms 137 Outline

  • By The Rivers Of Babylon We Wept When We Remembered Zion (v1)
  • For Those Who Carried Us Away Captive Asked Of Us A Song And Mirth (v2-3)
  • How Shall We Sing The Lord's Song In A Foreign Land? (v4-6)
  • Happy The One Who Repays You Babylon And Edom As You Have Served Us (v7-9)

Key Verse: Psalm 137:4Information Icon

Psalm 137:4 How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land? (ESV)

Psalms 137

1   By the waters of Babylon,
    there we sat down and wept,
    when we remembered Zion.
2   On the willows 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!”
4   How shall we sing the LORD’s song
    in a foreign land?
5   If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
    let my right hand forget its skill!
6   Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
    if I do not remember you,
  if I do not set Jerusalem
    above my highest joy!
7   Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites
    the day of Jerusalem,
  how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare,
    down to its foundations!”
8   O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,
    blessed shall he be who repays you
    with what you have done to us!
9   Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
    and dashes them against the rock!

(ESV)

Psalms 137 ContextInformation Icon

Book: Psalms

Chapter: 137 of 150 Chapters

Written In: Hebrew

Passage Type: Poetic