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Psalm 137 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:1 - By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:2 - Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:3 - For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:4 - How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:5 - If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:6 - If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:7 - O Lord, keep in mind against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; how they said, Let it be uncovered, uncovered even to its base.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:8 - O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:9 - Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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