Psalm 137:2
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
Cross-references
Psalm 33:2 uses the lyre for joyful praise, contrasting the exiles who hung up their lyres in sorrow.
Psalm 81:2 commands joyful music with lyre, contrasting the silenced lyres of the exiles.
Psalm 149:3 calls to praise with lyre and dance, contrasting the exiles who could not sing.
Isaiah 24:8 describes the cessation of lyre music in judgment, paralleling the exiles' silenced harps.
Ezekiel 26:13 prophesies the silencing of lyres in Tyre's judgment, mirroring the exiles' hung-up lyres.
Revelation 18:22 foretells harpists silenced in Babylon's fall, directly echoing the exiles' experience.
Isaiah 52:5 also describes Israel taken into exile and their name despised, echoing the same shame and reproach felt here.
Amos 8:10 turns feasts into mourning and songs to lamentation, similar to the exiles' silenced music.