Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right-hand forget:
New American Standard Bible
May my right hand
King James Version
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
Holman Bible
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.
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!
Themes
Babylon » Grief of the jews in
Forgetting God » The people of God
Home » Examples of love of » The jews in exile
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 137:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lament During The Babylonian Exile
4 How shall we sing the song of Yahweh, on a foreign soil? 5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right-hand forget: 6 Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee! if I do not lift up Jerusalem above the head of mine own gladness.
Names
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:2-4
that Hanani one of my brethren came, he and certain men out of Judah, - so I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 2:2-3
Then said the king unto me, Wherefore is thy countenance sad, seeing that, thou, art not sick? this is nothing else, but sadness of heart. Then feared I exceedingly,
Psalm 84:1-2
How lovely are thy habitations, O Yahweh of hosts!
Psalm 84:10
For better is a day in thy courts, than a thousand, I choose rather to stand at the threshold in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of lawlessness.
Psalm 102:13-14
Thou, wilt arise, wilt have compassion upon Zion, Surely it is time to favour her, Surely the time appointed, hath come;
Psalm 122:5-9
For there are set - Thrones for justice, Thrones for the house David.
Isaiah 62:1
For Zion's sake, will I not hold my peace, And for Jerusalem's sake, will I not rest, - Until her righteousness, go forth as brightness, And her salvation, as a torch that is lighted.
Isaiah 62:6-7
Upon thy walls O Jerusalem, have I appointed watchmen, All the day and all the night through, let them not hold their peace, - O ye that put Yahweh in mind, Do not take rest to yourselves,
Jeremiah 51:50
Ye that have escaped the sword, depart do not stand still, - Remember, from afar Yahweh, Let, Jerusalem, come up on your heart:-
Daniel 6:10-11
But, Daniel, when he knew that the writing, was signed, went to his own house, and, the windows being opened to him, in his chamber, toward Jerusalem, three times a day, was he kneeling upon his knees, and praying and giving thanks before his God, in like manner as he had been doing aforetime.
Zechariah 11:17
Alas! for my worthless shepherd, who forsaketh the flock, A sword upon his arm, and upon his right eye! - his arm, shall be, utterly withered, and, his right eye, shall be, wholly darkened.