Psalms 137:3 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 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.

KJV

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ASV

For there they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

WEB

for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”

YLT

For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers--joy: `Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'

DBT

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that made us wail [required] mirth, [saying,] Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

24 verses on the floor

Luke 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.
Lamentations 2:15–16
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?
Micah 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.
Psalms 9:14
That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
Psalms 80:6
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

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They had carried them away captive from their own land and then wasted them in the land of their captivity, took what little they had from them. But this was not enough; to complete their woes they insulted over them: They required of us mirth and a song. This was very barbarous and inhuman; even an enemy, in misery, is to be pitied and not trampled upon.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 137:3MIC 3:12 JER 26:18
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 137:3LUK 21:6 MAT 24:2
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 137:3PSA 9:14 PSA 13:5
PSA 137:3MIC 3:12 PSA 79:1
PSA 137:3PSA 9:14 PSA 20:5
PSA 137:3PSA 9:14 PSA 51:12
PSA 137:3PSA 9:14 1SA 2:1
PSA 137:3MIC 3:12 MIC 4:1-2

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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