27 lines
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27 lines
893 B
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# Chapter 137
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1 By the waters of Babylon,
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there we sat down and wept,
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when we remembered Zion.
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2 On the willows there
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we hung up our lyres.
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3 For there our captors
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required of us songs,
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and our tormentors, mirth, saying,
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“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
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4 How shall we sing the Lord's song
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in a foreign land?
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5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
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let my right hand forget its skill!
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6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
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if I do not remember you,
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if I do not set Jerusalem
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above my highest joy!
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7 Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites
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the day of Jerusalem,
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how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare,
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down to its foundations!”
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8 O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,
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blessed shall he be who repays you
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with what you have done to us!
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9 Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
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and dashes them against the rock! |