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Psalms 137
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down.
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs.
for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”
How can we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?
How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?
If I forget you, Jerusalem,
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.
Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you,
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!
Remember, LORD, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem,
Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction,
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.