Psalmen 137

1. ¹By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2. ²Upon the willows in the midst thereof we hanged up our harps.
3. ³For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, and our tormentors asked of us mirth: 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.'
4. ⁴How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land?
5. ⁵If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
6. ⁶Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy.
7. ⁷Remember, O LORD, against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said: 'Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.'
8. ⁸O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that repayeth thee as thou hast served us.
9. ⁹Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.

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