Parallel Chapters By the Rivers of Babylon
(Ezekiel 1:1-3) | 1By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. | 1By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. | 1By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion. | 1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. | 1By the rivers of Babylon-- there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion. |
| 2There on the poplars we hung our harps, | 2On the willows there we hung up our lyres. | 2Upon the willows in the midst of it We hung our harps. | 2We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. | 2There we hung up our lyres on the poplar trees, |
| 3for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" | 3For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” | 3For there our captors demanded of us songs, And our tormentors mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion." | 3For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. | 3for our captors there asked us for songs, and our tormentors, for rejoicing:" Sing us one of the songs of Zion." |
| 4How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land? | 4How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land? | 4How can we sing the LORD'S song In a foreign land? | 4How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land? | 4How can we sing the LORD's song on foreign soil? |
| 5If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. | 5If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill! | 5If I forget you, O Jerusalem, May my right hand forget her skill. | 5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. | 5If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. |
| 6May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy. | 6Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy! | 6May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth If I do not remember you, If I do not exalt Jerusalem Above my chief joy. | 6If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. | 6May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy! |
| 7Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. "Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundations!" | 7Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!” | 7Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, "Raze it, raze it To its very foundation." | 7Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. | 7Remember, LORD, what the Edomites said that day at Jerusalem:" Destroy it! Destroy it down to its foundations!" |
| 8Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us. | 8O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us! | 8O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, How blessed will be the one who repays you With the recompense with which you have repaid us. | 8O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. | 8Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who pays you back what you have done to us. |
| 9Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. | 9Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock! | 9How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock. | 9Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. | 9Happy is he who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rocks. |
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