Psalms 137:3
For there our captors called for a song: our tormentors, rejoicing, saying: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
In Context
2There on the poplars we hung our harps.
4How can we sing the Lord’s song in the foreigner’s land?
Cross References
Psalms 65:1It is seemly to praise you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall the vow be performed in Jerusalem.
Psalms 80:6The scorn of our neighbors you make us, the laughing-stock of our foes.
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 →