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            New International Version NIV
          
            
              1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
            
            
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By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.            
            
              2 There on the poplars we hung our harps,
            
            
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There on the poplars we hung our harps,            
            
              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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for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”            
            
              4 How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?
            
            
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How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?            
            
              5 If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.
            
            
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If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.            
            
              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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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.            
            
              7 Remember, 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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Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. “Tear it down,” they cried, “tear it down to its foundations!”            
            
              8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us.
            
            
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Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us.            
            
              9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
            
            
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Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.            
          
            
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