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Psalm 137

1 By the rivers of Babylon- there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion.

1 By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.

2 There we hung up our lyres on the poplar trees,

2 On the willows there we hung up our lyres.

3 for our captors there asked us for songs, and our tormentors, for rejoicing: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion."

3 For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion! ”

4 How can we sing the Lord's song on foreign soil?

4 How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?

5 If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget [its skill].

5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill!

6 May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!

7 Remember, Lord, [what] the Edomites said that day at Jerusalem: "Destroy it! Destroy it down to its foundations!"

7 Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations! ”

8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who pays you back what you have done to us.

8 O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us!

9 Happy is he who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rocks.

9 Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!