Parallel Verses

Webster

We hung our harps upon the willows in the midst of it.

New American Standard Bible

Upon the willows in the midst of it
We hung our harps.

King James Version

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

Holman Bible

There we hung up our lyres
on the poplar trees,

International Standard Version

On the willows there we hung our harps,

A Conservative Version

Upon the willows in the midst of it we hung up our harps.

American Standard Version

Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps.

Amplified


On the willow trees in the midst of Babylon
We hung our harps.

Bible in Basic English

Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside.

Darby Translation

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

Julia Smith Translation

Upon the willows in her midst, we hung our harps;

King James 2000

We hung our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

Lexham Expanded Bible

On [the] willows in her midst, we hung up our lyres.

Modern King James verseion

We hung our lyres on the willows in its midst.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

We hanged our harps upon the salon-trees, in the midst of it.

NET Bible

On the poplars in her midst we hang our harps,

New Heart English Bible

On the willows in its midst, we hung up our harps.

The Emphasized Bible

Upon the willows - in the midst thereof, hanged we our lyres:

World English Bible

On the willows in its midst, we hung up our harps.

Youngs Literal Translation

On willows in its midst we hung our harps.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
We hanged
תּלה 
Talah 
Usage: 27

כּנּור 
Kinnowr 
Usage: 42

ערב 
`arab 
Usage: 5

in the midst
תּוך 
Tavek 
Usage: 419

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

Lament During The Babylonian Exile

1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 We hung our harps upon the willows in the midst of it. 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.


Cross References

Isaiah 24:8

The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

Ezekiel 26:13

And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

Psalm 33:2

Praise the LORD with harp: sing to him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

Psalm 81:2

Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

Amos 8:10

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end of it as a bitter day.

Revelation 18:22

And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be no more heard in thee; and no artificer, of whatever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be no more heard in thee;

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