Psalms Chapter 137 (NIV)
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Psalm 137By the rivers of Babylon we sat and weptwhen we remembered Zion.
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There on the poplarswe hung our harps,
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for there our captors asked us for songs,our tormentors demanded songs of joy;they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
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How can we sing the songs of the Lordwhile in a foreign land?
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If I forget you, O Jerusalem,may my right hand forget its skill.
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May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouthif I do not remember you,if I do not consider Jerusalemmy highest joy.
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Remember, O Lord, what the Edomites didon the day Jerusalem fell.“Tear it down,” they cried,“tear it down to its foundations!”
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O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction,happy is he who repays youfor what you have done to us—
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he who seizes your infantsand dashes them against the rocks.
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