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801 B
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25 lines
801 B
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# Chapter 137
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1 By the rivers 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 There we hung up our lyres
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on the poplar trees,
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3 for our captors there asked us for songs,
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and our tormentors, for rejoicing:
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“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
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4 How can we sing the Lord’s song
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on foreign soil?
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5 If I forget you, Jerusalem,
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may my right hand forget its skill.
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6 May 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 exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!
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7 Remember, Lord, what the Edomites said
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that day at Jerusalem:
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“Destroy it! Destroy it
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down to its foundations!”
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8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
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happy is the one who pays you back
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what you have done to us.
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9 Happy is he who takes your little ones
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and dashes them against the rocks. |