Psalms 137:2
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 137 connects to 6 cross-references. A lament of Babylonian exiles who hung their harps on willows, unable to sing the Lord's song in a foreign land. Those who demand songs of Zion receive the mournful question 'How shall we sing?' The psalm ends controversially with …
Other Translations
Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps.
On willows in its midst we hung our harps.
Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside.
Cross References
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no …
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth …
And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in …
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.