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137:1  Beside the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, and, yes, we wept as we remembered Zion.
137:2  There we hung up our lyres on the willows,
137:3  because there our captors asked us for words of a song, and our tormentors asked for a happy song: “Sing for us one of the songs of Zion!”
137:4  How can we sing a song of the Lord on foreign soil?
137:5  If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget how to play music.
137:6  May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem above my highest joy.
137:7  Remember the day of Jerusalem, O Lord, against the descendants of Edom who said, “Tear it down, tear it down to its foundations!”
137:8  Daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, how blessed is the one who repays you with the same deeds you did against us.
137:9  How blessed is the one who seizes your children and dashes them against the cliff.