Psalms 137:1
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Psalms 137:1 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Psalms 137:1 is a verse from the book of Psalms in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Psalms 137:1 — KJV
“By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.”
— Psalms 137:1 (KJV)
Psalms 137:1 in Context — About the Book of Psalms
Psalms is the Bible's prayer book — 150 songs covering every emotion a praying person will ever feel: praise, panic, gratitude, grief, fury, and quiet trust. For three thousand years believers have borrowed these words when their own run out. If you can feel it, there is a psalm for it.
Cross-References for Psalms 137:1
“And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.”
Shares key themes with Psalms 137:1: sat, down, wept
“Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.”
Shares key themes with Psalms 137:1: sat, down, yea
“And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,”
Shares key themes with Psalms 137:1: sat, down, wept
“How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!”
Shares key themes with Psalms 137:1: down, remembered, zion
“And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.”
Shares key themes with Psalms 137:1: sat, down
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