Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

On willows in its midst we hung our harps.

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:

Webster

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

World English Bible

On the willows in its midst, we hung up 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 rivers of Babylon -- There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. 2 On willows in its midst we hung our harps. 3 For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers -- joy: 'Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'


Cross References

Isaiah 24:8

Ceased hath the joy of tabrets, Ceased hath the noise of exulting ones, Ceased hath the joy of a harp.

Ezekiel 26:13

And I have caused the noise of thy songs to cease, And the voice of thy harps is heard no more.

Psalm 33:2

Give ye thanks to Jehovah with a harp, With psaltery of ten strings sing praise to Him,

Psalm 81:2

Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.

Amos 8:10

And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head -- baldness, And made it as a mourning of an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.

Revelation 18:22

and voice of harpers, and musicians, and pipers, and trumpeters, may not be heard at all in thee any more; and any artisan of any art may not be found at all in thee any more; and noise of a millstone may not be heard at all in thee any more;

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