Psalms

Chapter 136

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    We sat down by the streams of Babylon and wept there, remembering Sion.

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    Willow-trees grow there, and on these we hung up our harps

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    when the men who took us prisoner cried out for a song. We must make sport for our enemies; A stave, there, from the music they sing at Sion!

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    What, should we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?

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    Jerusalem, if I forget thee, perish the skill of my right hand!

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    Let my tongue stick fast to the roof of my mouth if I cease to remember thee, if I love not Jerusalem dearer than heart’s content!

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    Remember, Lord, how the sons of Edom triumphed when Jerusalem fell; O’erthrow it, they cried, o’erthrow it, till the very foundation is left bare.

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    Babylon, pitiless queen, blessed be the man who deals out to thee the measure thou hast dealt to us;

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    blessed be the man who will catch up thy children, and dash them against the rocks!