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137:1  By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion.
137:2  On the willows there we hung up our harps.
137:3  For there our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
137:4  How could we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?
137:5  If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither!
137:6  Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy.
137:7  Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem’s fall, how they said, “Tear it down! Tear it down! Down to its foundations!”
137:8  O daughter Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall they be who pay you back what you have done to us!
137:9  Happy shall they be who take your little ones and dash them against the rock!