Psalm 137

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

2 There on the poplars we hung our harps.

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!"

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

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

6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my moouth if I do not remember you,

   if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

7 Remember, O Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell.

   "Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundaitons!"

8 O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction,

   happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us-

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