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By the Rivers of Babylon
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Psalm 137
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
There on the poplars
we hung our harps,
we hung our harps,
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
for there our captors asked us for songs,
our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
How can we sing the songs of the Lord
while in a foreign land?
while in a foreign land?
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.
may my right hand forget its skill.
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not consider Jerusalem
my highest joy.
if I do not remember you,
if I do not consider Jerusalem
my highest joy.
Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did
on the day Jerusalem fell.
“Tear it down,” they cried,
“tear it down to its foundations!”
on the day Jerusalem fell.
“Tear it down,” they cried,
“tear it down to its foundations!”
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who repays you
according to what you have done to us.
happy is the one who repays you
according to what you have done to us.