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Psalm 137 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:1 - By the waters of Babylon,
there we sat down and wept,
when we remembered Zion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:2 - On the willows[fn] there
we hung up our lyres.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:3 - For there our captors
required of us songs,
and our tormentors, mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:4 - How shall we sing the LORD’s song
in a foreign land?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:5 - If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
let my right hand forget its skill!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:6 - Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
above my highest joy!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:7 - Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites
the day of Jerusalem,
how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare,
down to its foundations!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:8 - O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,
blessed shall he be who repays you
with what you have done to us!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:9 - Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rock!
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