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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 rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

2 Upon the willows in the midst of it We hung our harps.

2 There on the poplars we hung our harps,

3 For there our captors demanded of us songs, And our tormentors mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion."

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!”

4 How can we sing the LORD'S song In a foreign land?

4 How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?

5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, May my right hand forget her skill.

5 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 exalt Jerusalem Above my chief joy.

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.

7 Remember, O LORD , against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, "Raze it, raze it To its very foundation."

7 Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. “Tear it down,” they cried, “tear it down to its foundations!”

8 O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, How blessed will be the one who repays you With the recompense with which you have repaid us.

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

9 How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock.

9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.