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Psalm 137 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Psa 137:1

Psa 137:1(LXX 136:1) [fn]For David, a Psalm of Jeremias. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat; and wept when we remembered Sion.

Psa 137:2

Psa 137:2(LXX 136:2) We hung our [fn]harps on the willows in the midst of it.

Psa 137:3

Psa 137:3(LXX 136:3) For there they that had taken us captive asked of us the words of a song; and they that had carried us away asked a hymn, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Sion.

Psa 137:4

Psa 137:4(LXX 136:4) How should we sing the Lord's song [fn]in a strange land?

Psa 137:5

Psa 137:5(LXX 136:5) If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.

Psa 137:6

Psa 137:6(LXX 136:6) May my tongue cleave to my throat, if I do not remember thee; if I do not prefer Jerusalem as the chief of my joy.

Psa 137:7

Psa 137:7(LXX 136:7) Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, [fn]rase it, even to its foundations.

Psa 137:8

Psa 137:8(LXX 136:8) Wretched daughter of Babylon! blessed shall he be who shall reward thee as thou hast rewarded us.

Psa 137:9

Psa 137:9(LXX 136:9) Blessed shall he be who shall seize and dash thine infants against the rock.
BES Footnotes
Alex. omits.
Gr. organs, or, instruments.
Gr. on.
Gr. empty, empty.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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