Psalms 137:6
May my tongue cleave to my palate if I do not remember thee: if I recall not Jerusalem at the head of my joy.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget—.
Cross References
Job 31:22Then may my shoulder fall from my shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the channel-bone;
Psalms 84:10(84:11) For better is a day in thy courts than a thousand [elsewhere]: I would rather choose to wait at the threshold of the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Lamentations 4:4The tongue of the suckling cleaveth to its palate by reason of thirst: babes ask for bread, there is not one to break it for them.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 137:2-7
The Sorrows of Captivity. 1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing the Lord 's song in a strange land? 5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. 6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof… Read the whole commentary →