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Psalms 137

1 By rivers of Babylon -- There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

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

2 On willows in its midst we hung our harps.

2 There on the poplars we hung our harps,

3 For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers -- joy: `Sing ye to us of a song 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 do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?

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

5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!

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

6 My tongue doth cleave to my palate, If I do not remember thee, 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, Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, The day of Jerusalem, Those saying, `Rase, rase to its 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, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us.

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

9 O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!

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

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