Psalms 137
- 1By rivers of Babylon -- There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.
- 2On willows in its midst we hung our harps.
- 3For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers -- joy: `Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'
- 4How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?
- 5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!
- 6My tongue doth cleave to my palate, If I do not remember thee, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.
- 7Remember, Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, The day of Jerusalem, Those saying, `Rase, rase to its foundation!'
- 8O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us.
- 9O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!
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