Psalms 137:3 Cross References - Thomson

³ for there they who had captivated us, asked of us the words of a song: and they who had led us away, asked for a hymn, saying, Sing for us some of the odes of Sion.

²⁷ Now David was girded in a cotton stole, as were all the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the musicians and Chonenias the chief of the singers. And when David in his cotton stole,

⁷ On that day David gave orders for beginning the praises of the Lord by the ministry of Asaph and his brethren, with this Ode:

² and said before his brethren, Is the army of Somoron reduced to this, that these Jews are building their city? They are indeed offering sacrifice; but can they prevail? Can they heal the stones after being burned to a heap of dust?

¹⁴ that I may proclaim all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion. Let me exult with joy for thy salvation.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. An Ode. To thee, O God, a hymn in Sion is seemly: and to thee a vow should be paid.

¹ A Psalm by Asaph. GOD, nations are come into thine inheritance: they have polluted thy holy temple. They have made Jerusalem a depository for summer fruits.

⁶ Thou hast made us a mocking stock to our neighbours: and our enemies have derided us.

³ Have mercy on us, Lord; have mercy on us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. ⁴ Our soul is filled exceedingly; we are the scoff of the prosperous and the contempt of the haughty.

¹⁰ They indeed shall return and come to Sion with joy, and everlasting joy shall crown their head: for on their heads will be praise and rapture; and gladness shall have full possession of them. Pain and sorrow and sighing are fled.

¹¹ For under the guidance of the Lord they shall be brought back, and shall come to Sion with joy and everlasting gladness; for praise shall crown their head and joy shall overtake them. Grief and sorrow and sighing are fled.

¹¹ I will indeed deliver up Jerusalem to captivity and make it a den for jackals; and the cities of Juda an uninhabitable desolation.

¹⁸ Michaias the Morasthite lived in the days of Ezekias king of Juda, and he said to all the people of Juda, "Thus said the Lord, Sion shall be ploughed like a field; and Jerusalem shall be a desolation; and the mountain of this house, a grove of a forest:"

¹² therefore they shall come and rejoice on mount Sion. They shall indeed come to the good things of the Lord; to a land of corn and wine, and of fruits and herds and flocks; and their soul shall be like a fruitful tree; and they shall no more be hungry. ¹³ Then shall virgins rejoice in the assembly of youths; the elders also shall be filled with joy; for I will turn their mourning into joy and make them glad.

¹⁵ All that passed by clapped their hands for thee, they expressed the sound of pity and shaked their heads for the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this, say they, the city, the crown of joy of the whole earth! ¹⁶ Against thee all thine enemies opened their mouth; they hissed and gnashed their teeth and said, We have swallowed her up; but this is the day we looked for; we have found it; we have seen it.

¹² therefore because of you, Sion shall be ploughed like a field; and Jerusalem shall be like a temporary building for summer fruits; and the mountain of the house shall be for a grove of a forest.

⁶ With regard to all those things on which you are gazing, days will come in which there will not be one stone left on another, which shall not be thrown down

¹ And I looked and behold! a lamb was standing on the mountain Sion and with him a hundred and forty four thousand having the name of his father written on their foreheads. ² And I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. And I heard the sound of musicians playing on their kitharas ³ and singing as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four animate beings, and the elders; and no one could learn the song, but the hundred and forty four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth.