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Psalm 137 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Psa 137:1

Psa 137:1By rivers of Babylon -- There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

Psa 137:2

Psa 137:2On willows in its midst we hung our harps.

Psa 137:3

Psa 137:3For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers -- joy: 'Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'

Psa 137:4

Psa 137:4How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?

Psa 137:5

Psa 137:5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!

Psa 137:6

Psa 137:6My tongue doth cleave to my palate, If I do not remember thee, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Psa 137:7

Psa 137:7Remember, Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, The day of Jerusalem, Those saying, 'Rase, rase to its foundation!'

Psa 137:8

Psa 137:8O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us.

Psa 137:9

Psa 137:9O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!
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The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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