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137:1  By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat and also wept, When we remembered Zion.
137:2  Upon the willows in the midst of it We hung our lyres.
137:3  For there our captors asked us about the words of a song, And our tormentors asked joyfully, saying, “Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.”
137:4  How can we sing a song of Yahweh In a foreign land?
137:5  If I forget you, O Jerusalem, May my right hand forget her skill.
137:6  May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth If I do not remember you, If I do not exalt Jerusalem Above my chief joy.
137:7  Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, “Tear it down! Tear it down To its very foundation.”
137:8  O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, How blessed will be the one who repays you With the recompense with which you have recompensed us.
137:9  How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your infants Against the cliff.