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137:1  By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.
137:2  On the willows there we hung up our harps.
137:3  For there our captors demanded songs and our tormentors asked for joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
137:4  How can we sing a song of Adonai in a foreign land?
137:5  If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither.
137:6  May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I cease to remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my chief joy.
137:7  Remember, Adonai, the children of Edom, what they said on the day Jerusalem fell: “Strip her, strip her to her very foundation!”
137:8  O daughter of Babylon, the devastated one, happy is the one who repays you as you have paid us.
137:9  Happy is the one who seizes your little ones and dashes them upon the rock.