5If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill .


In Context

2 There on the poplars we hung our harps,

3 for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

4 How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land?

5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill .

6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

7 Remember, O Lord , what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. "Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundations!"

Psalms 137:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

137:5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [her cunning. ]

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

137:5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

137:5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her skill .

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

137:5If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

137:5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

137:5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her skill.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

137:5If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

137:5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

137:5If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.