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¹ By the waters of Babylon,
    there we sat down and wept,
    when we remembered Zion.
² On the willows^[a] there
    we hung up our lyres.
³ For there our captors
    required of us songs,
and our tormentors, mirth, saying,
    "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

^4 (a)How shall we sing the Lord's song
    in a foreign land?
⁵ If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
    ^(b)let my right hand forget its skill!
⁶ Let my ^(c)tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
    if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
    above my highest joy!

⁷ Remember, O Lord, against the ^(d)Edomites
    ^(e)the day of Jerusalem,
how they said, ^(f)"Lay it bare, lay it bare,
    down to its foundations!"
⁸ O daughter of Babylon, ^(g)doomed to be destroyed,
    blessed shall he be who ^(h)repays you
    with what you have done to us!
⁹ Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
    and ⁽ⁱ⁾dashes them against the rock!