Verse List for PSA 137:5

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) If I forget about you, Yerushalem, ⇔ may my right hand forget how to do anything.

OET-LV If I_will _forget _you Oh _Yərūshālam/(Jerusalem) may _it _forget hand _of_my _right.

AHB Should I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand wither.

ULT If I forget you, Jerusalem, ⇔  let my right hand forget.

UST If I ever forget about Jerusalem, ⇔  may my right hand be unable to play the harp!

BSB & MSB If I forget you, O Jerusalem, ⇔  may my right hand cease to function.

OEB If I forget you, Jerusalem, ⇔  may my right hand wither.

WEBBE & WMBB If I forget you, Jerusalem, ⇔  let my right hand forget its skill.

NET If I forget you, O Jerusalem, ⇔ may my right hand be crippled!

LSV If I forget you, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgets!

FBV If I forget Jerusalem, may my right hand forget how to play;[fn]

T4T ⇔  If I forget about Jerusalem [APO], Iet my right hand wither ⇔  with the result that I will be unable to play my harp

LEB • If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
• let my right hand forget.[fn]

BBE If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.

Moff Jerusalem, if ever I forget thee, ⇔  withered be this my hand!

JPS If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

ASV If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, ⇔ Let my right hand forget her skill.

DRA And let them sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord.

YLT If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!

Drby If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [its skill];

RV If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
(If I forget thee/you, Oh Yerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.)

SLT If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten.

Wbstr If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her skill .

KJB-1769 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
(If I forget thee/you, Oh Yerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.)

KJB-1611 If I forget thee, O Ierusalem: let my right hand forget her cunning.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps If I forget thee O Hierusalem: let my right hande forget her cunning.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation))

Gnva If I forget thee, O Ierusalem, let my right hand forget to play.
(If I forget thee/you, Oh Yerusalem, let my right hand forget to play.)

Cvdl Yf I forget the (o Ierusalem) let my right hande be forgotten.
(If I forget the (o Yerusalem) let my right hand be forgotten.)

Wycl And singe thei in the weies of the Lord; for the glorie of the Lord is greet.
(And singe they in the ways of the Lord; for the glory of the Lord is great.)

Luth Vergesse ich dein, Jerusalem, so werde meiner Rechten vergessen!
(Vergesse I your(s), Yerusalem, so become mine law/right forget!)

ClVg Et cantent in viis Domini, quoniam magna est gloria Domini;[fn]
(And cantent in/into/on ways Master, since/because big it_is glory Master;)

UHB אִֽם־אֶשְׁכָּחֵ֥⁠ךְ יְֽרוּשָׁלִָ֗ם תִּשְׁכַּ֥ח יְמִינִֽ⁠י׃ ‡

BrLXX Καὶ ᾀσάτωσαν ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς Κυρίου, ὅτι μεγάλη ἡ δόξα Κυρίου.

BrTr And let them sing in the ways of the Lord; for great is the glory of the Lord.