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137:1  There we sat down and cried— by the rivers of Babylon— as we remembered Zion.
137:2  On the willows there we hung our harps,
137:3  for it was there that our captors asked us for songs and our torturers demanded joy from us, "Sing us one of the songs about Zion!"
137:4  How are we to sing the song of the LORD on foreign soil?
137:5  If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.
137:6  May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you, if I don't consider Jerusalem to be more important than my highest joy.
137:7  Remember the day of Jerusalem's fall, LORD, because of the Edomites, who kept saying, "Tear it down! Tear it right down to its foundations!"
137:8  Daughter of Babylon! You devastator! How blessed will be the one who pays you back for what you have done to us.
137:9  How blessed will be the one who seizes your young children and pulverizes them against the cliff!