Psalms 137
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By the waters of Babylon there we sat, and we wept at the thought of Zion.
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There on the poplars we hung our harps.
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For there our captors called for a song: our tormentors, rejoicing, saying: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
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How can we sing the Lord’s song in the foreigner’s land?
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If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand wither.
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May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I am unmindful of you, or don’t set Jerusalem above my chief joy.
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Remember the Edomites, Lord, the day of Jerusalem’s fall, when they said, “Lay her bare, lay her bare, right down to her very foundation.”
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Babylon, despoiler, happy are those who pay you back for all you have done to us.
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Happy are they who seize and dash your children against the rocks.
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