Psalm 137:1–2
How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?
137 By the waters of Babylon,
there we sat down and wept,
when we remembered Zion.
2 On the willows1 there
we hung up our lyres.
Psalm 137:1–2 — The New International Version (NIV)
1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
2 There on the poplars
we hung our harps,
Psalm 137:1–2 — King James Version (KJV 1900)
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.
Psalm 137:1–2 — New Living Translation (NLT)
1 Beside the rivers of Babylon, we sat and wept
as we thought of Jerusalem.
2 We put away our harps,
hanging them on the branches of poplar trees.
Psalm 137:1–2 — The New King James Version (NKJV)
1 By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down, yea, we wept
When we remembered Zion.
2 We hung our harps
Upon the willows in the midst of it.
Psalm 137:1–2 — New Century Version (NCV)
1 By the rivers in Babylon we sat and cried
when we remembered Jerusalem.
2 On the poplar trees nearby
we hung our harps.
Psalm 137:1–2 — American Standard Version (ASV)
1 By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down, yea, we wept,
When we remembered Zion.
2 Upon the willows in the midst thereof
We hanged up our harps.
Psalm 137:1–2 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)
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.
Psalm 137:1–2 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
1 By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and cried
as we remembered Zion.
2 We hung our lyres on willow trees.
Psalm 137:1–2 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
1 By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down and wept
when we remembered Zion.
2 There we hung up our lyres
on the poplar trees,
Psalm 137:1–2 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
1 By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down and there we wept
when we remembered Zion.
2 On the willows there
we hung up our harps.
Psalm 137:1–2 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)
1 By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat, yes, we wept,
when we remembered Zion.
2 On the willows in her midst,
we hung up our lyres.
Psalm 137:1–2 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)
1 We were sitting by the rivers of Babylon.
We cried when we remembered what had happened to Zion.
2 On the nearby poplar trees
we hung up our harps.
Psalm 137:1–2 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)
1 By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down and wept,
When we remembered Zion.
2 Upon the willows in the midst of it
We hung our harps.