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Psalm 137

Lament over the Destruction of Jerusalem

137 By the waters of Babylon,

there we sat down and wept,

when we remembered Zion.

2 On the willows 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 How shall we sing the Lord’s song

in a foreign land?

5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,

let my right hand wither!

6 Let my tongue cleave 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 E′domites

the day of Jerusalem,

how they said, “Raze it, raze it!

Down to its foundations!”

8 O daughter of Babylon, you devastator!

Happy shall he be who requites you

with what you have done to us!

9 Happy shall he be who takes your little ones

and dashes them against the rock!