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Psalm 137:1
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KJ21
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.
ASV
By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion.
AMP
By the rivers of Babylon, There we [captives] sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion [the city God imprinted on our hearts].
AMPC
By the rivers of Babylon, there we [captives] sat down, yes, we wept when we [earnestly] remembered Zion [the city of our God imprinted on our hearts].
BRG
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
CSB
By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion.
CSBA
By the rivers of Babylon – there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion.
CEB
Alongside Babylon’s streams, there we sat down, crying because we remembered Zion.
CJB
By the rivers of Bavel we sat down and wept as we remembered Tziyon.
CEV
Beside the rivers of Babylon we thought about Jerusalem, and we sat down and cried.
DARBY
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.
DRA
I will praise thee, O lord, with my whole heart: for thou hast heard the words of my mouth. I will sing praise to thee in the sight of his angels:
ERV
We sat by the rivers in Babylon and cried as we remembered Zion.
EASY
When we sat down beside the rivers in Babylon, we were very upset. We thought about Zion city that we had left behind, and we wept.
EHV
Beside the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, and, yes, we wept as we remembered Zion.
ESV
By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.
ESVUK
By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.
EXB
By the rivers in Babylon we sat and ·cried [wept; C during the Babylonian exile] when we remembered ·Jerusalem [L Zion; C the location of the Temple].
GNV
1 The people of God in their banishment seeing God’s true Religion decay, lived in great anguish and sorrow of heart: the which grief the Chaldeans did so little pity, 3 That they rather increased the same daily with taunts, reproaches and blasphemies against God. 7 Wherefore the Israelites desire God, first to punish the Edomites, who provoked the Babylonians against them, 8 And moved by the Spirit of God, prophesy the destruction of Babylon, where they were handled so tyrannously.  By the rivers of Babel we sat, and there we wept, when we remembered Zion.
GW
By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and cried as we remembered Zion.
GNT
By the rivers of Babylon we sat down; there we wept when we remembered Zion.
HCSB
By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion.
ICB
By the rivers in Babylon we sat and cried when we remembered Jerusalem.
ISV
There we sat down and cried— by the rivers of Babylon— as we remembered Zion.
JUB
¶ By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
KJV
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
AKJV
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
LSB
By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat and also wept, When we remembered Zion.
LEB
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
TLB
Weeping, we sat beside the rivers of Babylon thinking of Jerusalem.
MSG
Alongside Babylon’s rivers we sat on the banks; we cried and cried, remembering the good old days in Zion. Alongside the quaking aspens we stacked our unplayed harps; That’s where our captors demanded songs, sarcastic and mocking: “Sing us a happy Zion song!”
MEV
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion.
NOG
By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and cried as we remembered Zion.
NABRE
By the rivers of Babylon there we sat weeping when we remembered Zion.
NASB
By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion.
NASB1995
By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion.
NCB
By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion.
NCV
By the rivers in Babylon we sat and cried when we remembered Jerusalem.
NET
By the rivers of Babylon we sit down and weep when we remember Zion.
NIRV
We were sitting by the rivers of Babylon. We wept when we remembered what had happened to Zion.
NIV
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
NIVUK
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
NKJV
By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept When we remembered Zion.
NLV
We sat down and cried by the rivers of Babylon when we remembered Zion.
NLT
Beside the rivers of Babylon, we sat and wept as we thought of Jerusalem.
NRSVA
By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion.
NRSVACE
By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion.
NRSVCE
By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion.
NRSVUE
By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down, and there we wept when we remembered Zion.
OJB
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we remembered Tziyon.
RGT
We sat by the rivers of Babel; and there we wept when we remembered Zion.
RSV
By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.
RSVCE
By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.
TLV
By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.
VOICE
By the rivers of Babylon, we sat and wept when we thought of Zion, our home, so far away.
WEB
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
WYC
On the floods of Babylon, there we sat, and wept; while we bethought on Zion. (By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, and wept; when we thought about Zion.)
YLT
By rivers of Babylon -- There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.
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