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N84New International Version (1984)

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By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

Psalms 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

There on the poplars we hung our harps,

Psalms 137:2

There on the poplars we hung our harps,

for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

Psalms 137:3

for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?

Psalms 137:4

How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land?

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill .

Psalms 137:5

If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

Psalms 137:6

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

Remember, O LORD , what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. "Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundations!"

Psalms 137:7

Remember, Lord , what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. "Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundations!"

O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us-

Psalms 137:8

Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us.

⁹ he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

Psalms 137:9

Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

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