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Psalm 137 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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 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 wither!

Psa 137:6

Psa 137:6Let my tongue cleave 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 E'domites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, "Rase it, rase it! Down to its foundations!"

Psa 137:8

Psa 137:8O daughter of Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall he be who requites you with what you have done to us!

Psa 137:9

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