Psalm 137:6 “May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you,…”

Psalm 137:6

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember thee not; If I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy.

Geneva Bible 1599

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth: yea, if I preferre not Ierusalem to my chiefe ioy.

Darby Translation

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to my palate: if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Young's Literal Translation

My tongue doth cleave to my palate, If I do not remember thee, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Bible in Basic English

If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.

.mt-body { max-height: none !important; -webkit-mask-image: none !important; mask-image: none !important; } .mt-bar { display: none !important; } .o-trans::after { display: block !important; }

Cross references

“let my tongue”

Ezekiel 3:26 Psalm 22:15 Isaiah 41:17 Lamentations 4:4

Ezekiel 3:26 · BSB

I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.

Psalm 22:15 · BSB

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.

Isaiah 41:17 · BSB

The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Lamentations 4:4 · BSB

The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

“if I prefer”

Psalm 84:10 1 Thessalonians 3:7–9 Matthew 6:33 Acts 20:24 Philippians 1:20

Psalm 84:10 · BSB

For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

1 Thessalonians 3:7–9 · BSB

For this reason, brothers, in all our distress and persecution, we have been reassured about you, because of your faith.

Matthew 6:33 · BSB

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

Acts 20:24 · BSB

But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

Philippians 1:20 · BSB

I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

Also

Job 29:10

Job 29:10 · BSB

The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.

7Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

Read Psalm 137