<< Psalm 137 >>
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An Experience of the Captivity.

1 By the rivers of Babylon,
         There we sat down and wept,
         When we remembered Zion.
2 Upon the willows in the midst of it
         We hung our harps.
3 For there our captors demanded of us songs,
         And our tormentors mirth, saying,
         “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
4 How can we sing the LORD’S song
         In a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
         May my right hand forget her skill.
6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
         If I do not remember you,
         If I do not exalt Jerusalem
         Above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom
         The day of Jerusalem,
         Who said, “Raze it, raze it
         To its very foundation.”
8 O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one,
         How blessed will be the one who repays you
         With the recompense with which you have repaid us.
9 How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones
         Against the rock.

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