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The Blue Letter Bible

Psalm 137 – Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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Lament of the Exiles

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By the rivers of Babylon —

there we sat down and wept

when we remembered Zion.

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There we hung up our lyres

on the poplar trees,

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for our captors there asked us for songs,

and our tormentors, for rejoicing:

“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

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How can we sing the LORD’s song

on foreign soil?

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If I forget you, Jerusalem,

may my right hand forget its skill.

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May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth

if I do not remember you,

if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

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Remember, LORD, what the Edomites said

that day[fn] at Jerusalem:

“Destroy it! Destroy it

down to its foundations! ”

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Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,

happy is the one who pays you back

what you have done to us.

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Happy is he who takes your little ones

and dashes them against the rocks.

See the CSB Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
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The day Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in 586 BC
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Psalm Chapter 137 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Open New Arabic Version Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras