Psalm 137:1-9 (New International Version)
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By the rivers of Babylon1 we sat and wept2 when we remembered Zion.3
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There on the poplars4 we hung our harps,5
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for there our captors6 asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded7 songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"8
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How can we sing the songs of the LORD9 while in a foreign land?
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If I forget you,10 O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget [its skill].
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May my tongue cling to the roof11 of my mouth if I do not remember12 you, if I do not consider Jerusalem13 my highest joy.
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Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites14 did on the day Jerusalem fell.15 "Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundations!"16
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O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction,17 happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us--
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he who seizes your infants and dashes them18 against the rocks.
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