Psalms 137
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Psalms 137
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By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion. | By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion, |
Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps. | Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside. |
For there they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us one of the songs of Zion. | For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion. |
How shall we sing Jehovah's song In a foreign land? | How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land? |
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget [her skill]. | If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art. |
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember thee not; If I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy. | If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth. |
Remember, O Jehovah, against the children of Edom The day of Jerusalem; Who said, Rase it, rase it, Even to the foundation thereof. | O Lord, keep in mind against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; how they said, Let it be uncovered, uncovered even to its base. |
O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed, Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee As thou hast served us. | O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us. |
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock. Psalm 138 A [Psalm] of David. | Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks. |