Psalm 137
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1There we sat down and cried— by the rivers of Babylon— as we remembered Zion.1By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.
2On the willows there we hung our harps,2On the willows there we hung up our lyres.
3for it was there that our captors asked us for songs and our torturers demanded joy from us, "Sing us one of the songs about Zion!"3For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4How are we to sing the song of the LORD on foreign soil?4How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?
5If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function. 5If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill!
6May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you, if I don't consider Jerusalem to be more important than my highest joy.6Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!
7Remember the day of Jerusalem's fall, LORD, because of the Edomites, who kept saying, "Tear it down! Tear it right down to its foundations!"7Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!”
8Daughter of Babylon! You devastator! How blessed will be the one who pays you back for what you have done to us.8O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us!
9How blessed will be the one who seizes your young children and pulverizes them against the cliff!9Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!
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Psalm 136
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