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Psa 137:3 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

For there		Psa 123:3,4; Lam 2:15,16
a song		Heb. the words of a song
wasted us		Heb. laid us on heaps. Psa 79:1; Neh 4:2; Jer 9:11; Jer 26:18; Mic 3:12; Luk 21:6
the songs of Zion		Psa 9:14; Psa 65:1; 1Ch 15:27; 1Ch 16:7; Isa 35:10; Isa 51:11; Jer 31:12,13; Rev 14:1-3

Correlating Passages

For there

	Psa 123:3	Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
	Psa 123:4	Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, [and] with the contempt of the proud.
	Lam 2:15	All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying, Is] this the city that [men] call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
	Lam 2:16	All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up: certainly this [is] the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen [it].

wasted us

	Psa 79:1	[[A Psalm of Asaph.]] O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
	Neh 4:2	And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
	Jer 9:11	And I will make Jerusalem heaps, [and] a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
	Jer 26:18	Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
	Mic 3:12	Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
	Luk 21:6	[As for] these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

the songs of Zion

	Psa 9:14	That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
	Psa 65:1	[[To the chief Musician, A Psalm [and] Song of David.]] Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
	1Ch 15:27	And David [was] clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also [had] upon him an ephod of linen.
	1Ch 16:7	Then on that day David delivered first [this psalm] to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
	Isa 35:10	And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
	Isa 51:11	Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
	Jer 31:12	Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
	Jer 31:13	Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
	Rev 14:1	And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty [and] four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
	Rev 14:2	And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
	Rev 14:3	And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred [and] forty [and] four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

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Scott, Thomas. "Psalms 137:3," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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