The Book of Psalms

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Chapter 137

1: By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we rememberedZion.

2: We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

3: 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.

4: How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?

5: If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

6: If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if Iprefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

7: Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

8: O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

9: Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Psalms 138

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