Psalms 137:5 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 137:5

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

KJV

Parallel translations

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

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

DBT

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

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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19 verses on the floor

Jeremiah 51:50
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
Daniel 6:10–11
Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Psalms 122:9
Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good.
Psalms 84:10
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Zechariah 11:17
Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

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They preferred it above their chief joy, and therefore they remembered it and could not forget it. What we love we love to think of. Those that rejoice in God do, for his sake, make Jerusalem their joy, and prefer it before that, whatever it is, which is the head of their joy, which is dearest to them in this world.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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