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Psalm 137 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Sorrows of the Exiles in Babylon.

Psa 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down, yea, we wept,
When we remembered Zion.
Psa 137:2
Upon the willows in the midst thereof
We hanged up our harps.
Psa 137:3
For there they that led us captive required of us songs,
And they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying,
Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Psa 137:4
How shall we sing Jehovah’s song
In a foreign land?
Psa 137:5
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,
Let my right hand forget her skill.
Psa 137:6
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,
If I remember thee not;
If I prefer not Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.
Psa 137:7
Remember, O Jehovah, against the children of Edom
The day of Jerusalem;
Who said, Rase it, rase it,
Even to the foundation thereof.
Psa 137:8
O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed,
Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee
As thou hast served us.
Psa 137:9
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones
Against the rock.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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