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Psalms 137

Psalms 137:1   ←
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Psalms 137:2   ←
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

Psalms 137:3   ←
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

Psalms 137:4   ←
How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?

Psalms 137:5   ←
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

Psalms 137:6   ←
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Psalms 137:7   ←
Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Psalms 137:8   ←
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

Psalms 137:9   ←
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.


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