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Psalm 137 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

An Experience of the Captivity.

Psa 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon,

There we sat down and wept,

When we remembered Zion.

Psa 137:2

Upon the [fn]willows in the midst of it

We hung our [fn]harps.

Psa 137:3

For there our captors [fn]demanded of us [fn]songs,

And our tormentors, jubilation, saying,

“Sing for us one of the songs of Zion!”

Psa 137:4

How can we sing the LORD’S song

In a foreign land?

Psa 137:5

If I forget you, Jerusalem,

May my right hand [fn]forget its skill.

Psa 137:6

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth

If I do not remember you,

If I do not [fn]exalt Jerusalem

Above my chief joy.

Psa 137:7

Remember, LORD, against the sons of Edom

The day of Jerusalem,

Those who said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare

To its foundation!”

Psa 137:8

Daughter of Babylon, you [fn]devastated one,

Blessed will be one who repays you

With [fn]the retribution with which you have repaid us.

Psa 137:9

Blessed will be one who seizes and dashes your children

Against the rock.

NASB20 Footnotes
Or poplars
Lit lyres
Lit asked
Lit words of song
I.e., become useless
Lit cause to ascend
Or devastator
Lit your requital
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