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1 By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.
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1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
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2 On the willows there we hung up our lyres.
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2 There on the poplars we hung our harps,
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3 For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
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3 for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
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4 How shall we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land?
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4 How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?
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5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither!
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5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget [its skill].
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6 Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!
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6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.
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7 Remember, O LORD, against the E'domites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, "Rase it, rase it! Down to its foundations!"
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7 Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. "Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundations!"
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8 O daughter of Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall he be who requites you with what you have done to us!
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8 O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us--
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9 Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!
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9 he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
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| Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version - Holy Bible) |
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