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Psalms 137
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By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.
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On the willows there we hung up our lyres.
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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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How shall we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land?
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If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither!
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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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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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O daughter of Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall he be who requites you with what you have done to us!
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Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!
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.
Psalms 138
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A Psalm of David. I give thee thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing thy praise;
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I bow down toward thy holy temple and give thanks to thy name for thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness; for thou hast exalted above everything thy name and thy word.
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On the day I called, thou didst answer me, my strength of soul thou didst increase.
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All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, for they have heard the words of thy mouth;
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and they shall sing of the ways of the LORD, for great is the glory of the LORD.
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For though the LORD is high, he regards the lowly; but the haughty he knows from afar.
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Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou dost preserve my life; thou dost stretch out thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand delivers me.
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The LORD will fulfil his purpose for me; thy steadfast love, O LORD, endures for ever. Do not forsake the work of thy hands.
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.