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Psalm 137 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?

Psa 137:1

Psa 137:1By the waters of Babylon,
there we sat down and wept,
when we remembered Zion.

Psa 137:2

Psa 137:2On the willows[fn] there
we hung up our lyres.

Psa 137:3

Psa 137:3For there our captors
required of us songs,
and our tormentors, mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

Psa 137:4

Psa 137:4How shall we sing the LORD’s song
in a foreign land?

Psa 137:5

Psa 137:5If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
let my right hand forget its skill!

Psa 137:6

Psa 137:6Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
above my highest joy!

Psa 137:7

Psa 137:7Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites
the day of Jerusalem,
how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare,
down to its foundations!”

Psa 137:8

Psa 137:8O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,
blessed shall he be who repays you
with what you have done to us!

Psa 137:9

Psa 137:9Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rock!
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