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By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion.
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On the willows a there we hung up our harps.
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For there our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
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How could we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?
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