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Psalm 137 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)

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  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew (not verified)
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  • Protestant (66 books)
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  • 2026
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BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 Junto a los ríos de Babilonia nos sentábamos a llorar al recordar a Sión.
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2 Colgábamos nuestros instrumentos en los árboles junto al agua.
2 On the willows in that land, we hung up our harps.
3 Allí nuestros captores nos pedían un canto; quienes nos habían quitado todo nos ordenaban alegrarnos: «Canten uno de los cantos de Sión».
3 For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4 ¿Cómo podemos cantar al Señor en tierra extranjera?
4 How can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land?
5 Si te olvido, Jerusalén, que mi mano derecha olvide su habilidad.
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.
6 Que mi lengua se pegue al paladar si dejo de pensar en ti, si no pongo a Jerusalén por encima de mi mayor alegría.
6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
7 Señor, recuerda contra los hijos de Edom aquel día de Jerusalén, cuando decían: «¡Arrásenla! ¡Arrásenla hasta sus cimientos!».
7 Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”
8 Hija de Babilonia, destinada a la destrucción, feliz quien te haga lo que nos hiciste.
8 Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us.
9 Feliz quien tome a tus pequeños y los estrelle contra las rocas.
9 Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

People & places in this chapter

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Places

  • Babylon

    Today: Iraq (on the Euphrates)

    Capital of Nebuchadnezzar's empire on the Euphrates. It destroyed Jerusalem in 586 BC and carried Judah into exile, where Daniel and the people kept their faith.

    Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 25:1; Daniel 1:1; Psalm 137:1

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Cross references (9)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Ezekiel 1:1; Ezekiel 3:15; Lamentations 2:10–11; Lamentations 3:48; Lamentations 2:18
  2. 2 Ezekiel 26:13; Isaiah 24:8; Revelation 18:22; Psalm 81:2; Amos 8:10
  3. 3 Luke 21:6; Psalm 9:14; Lamentations 2:15–16; Micah 3:12; Jeremiah 9:11
  4. 4 Amos 8:3; Isaiah 22:12; Hosea 9:4; Lamentations 5:14–15; Ecclesiastes 3:4
  5. 5 Daniel 6:10–11; Jeremiah 51:50; Psalm 122:5–9; Psalm 84:10; Zechariah 11:17
  6. 6 Ezekiel 3:26; Psalm 22:15; Job 29:10; Isaiah 41:17; Psalm 84:10
  7. 7 Lamentations 4:21–22; Ezekiel 25:12–14; Jeremiah 49:7–22; Obadiah 10–14; Habakkuk 3:13
  8. 8 Revelation 18:6; Jeremiah 25:12–14; Isaiah 14:4–24; Revelation 14:8–11; Isaiah 21:1
  9. 9 Isaiah 13:16; Hosea 13:16; Nahum 3:10; 2 Kings 8:12; Hosea 10:14

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

Articles and answers on this site that cite Psalm 137.

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXXXVI)

    (ver. 1). This Psalm contains the praise of God, and all its verses finish in the same way. Wherefore although many things are related here in praise of God, yet His mercy is most commended; for without this plain commendation, he, whom the Holy Spirit used to utter this Psalm, would have no verse be ended.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 137:1 John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Book IV, Chapters V–VIII)

    And here again: By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; yea wept.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)