Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
May my right hand forget her skill.

King James Version

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

Holman Bible

If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.

International Standard Version

If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.

A Conservative Version

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget.

American Standard Version

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her skill .

Amplified


If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
Let my right hand forget [her skill with the harp].

Bible in Basic English

If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.

Darby Translation

If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill;

Julia Smith Translation

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten.

King James 2000

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning.

Lexham Expanded Bible

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget.

Modern King James verseion

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my righthand forget her cunning.

NET Bible

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand be crippled!

New Heart English Bible

If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.

The Emphasized Bible

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right-hand forget:

Webster

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her skill.

World English Bible

If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.

Youngs Literal Translation

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If I forget
שׁכח שׁכח 
Shakach 
Usage: 102

ירוּשׁלים ירוּשׁלם 
Y@ruwshalaim 
Usage: 642

ימין 
Yamiyn 
Usage: 139

שׁכח שׁכח 
Shakach 
Usage: 102

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Lament During The Babylonian Exile

4 How can we sing the Lord’s song
In a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
May my right hand forget her skill.
6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
If I do not remember you,
If I do not exalt Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.


Cross References

Nehemiah 1:2-4

that Hanani, one of my brothers, and some men from Judah came; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped and had survived the captivity, and about Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 2:2-3

So the king said to me, “Why is your face sad though you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

Psalm 84:1-2

For the choir director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
How lovely are Your dwelling places,
O Lord of hosts!

Psalm 84:10

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside.
I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God
Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Psalm 102:13-14

You will arise and have compassion on Zion;
For it is time to be gracious to her,
For the appointed time has come.

Psalm 122:5-9

For there thrones were set for judgment,
The thrones of the house of David.

Isaiah 62:1

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,
And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep quiet,
Until her righteousness goes forth like brightness,
And her salvation like a torch that is burning.

Isaiah 62:6-7

On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen;
All day and all night they will never keep silent.
You who remind the Lord, take no rest for yourselves;

Jeremiah 51:50

You who have escaped the sword,
Depart! Do not stay!
Remember the Lord from afar,
And let Jerusalem come to your mind.

Daniel 6:10-11

Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously.

Zechariah 11:17

Woe to the worthless shepherd
Who leaves the flock!
A sword will be on his arm
And on his right eye!
His arm will be totally withered
And his right eye will be blind.”

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