Psalms 137
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By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and we wept in our remembering Zion.
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Upon the willows in her midst, we hung our harps.
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For there our captors required of us the words of a song, and our tormentors, joy: “Sing to us a song of Zion.”
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How can we sing a song of YHWH in a foreign land?
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If I should forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget.
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May my tongue cling to my palate, if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy!
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Remember, O YHWH, about the sons of Edom, on the day of Jerusalem—those saying, “Lay [her] bare! Lay [her] bare to her foundation!”
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O Daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, blessed [is] he who repays to you, dealing with you as you have dealt with us!
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Blessed [is] he who seizes and dashes your infants against the rock!
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