Psalms 137:1 (BSB)
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

Psalms 137:2 (BSB)
There on the willows we hung our harps,

Psalms 137:3 (BSB)
for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”

Psalms 137:4 (BSB)
How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?

Psalms 137:5 (BSB)
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.

Psalms 137:6 (BSB)
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

Psalms 137:7 (BSB)
Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

Psalms 137:8 (BSB)
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

Psalms 137:9 (BSB)
Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
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