Psalmen 137

1. ¹By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.
2. ²We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3. ³For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that made us wail [ergänzt: required] mirth, [ergänzt: saying,] Sing us [ergänzt: one] of the songs of Zion.
4. ⁴How should we sing a song of Jehovah's upon a foreign soil?
5. ⁵If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [ergänzt: its skill];
6. ⁶If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to my palate: if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
7. ⁷Remember, O Jehovah, against the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, Lay [ergänzt: it] bare, Lay [ergänzt: it] bare, down to its foundation!
8. ⁸Daughter of Babylon, who art to be laid waste, happy he that rendereth unto thee that which thou hast meted out to us.
9. ⁹Happy he that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.

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