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Chapter 137
Psal Noyes 137:1  By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion.
Psal Noyes 137:2  We hung our harps on the willows in the midst thereof.
Psal Noyes 137:3  For there they who carried us away captive required of us a song; They who wasted us required of us mirth: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
Psal Noyes 137:4  How shall we sing the LORD’S song In a strange land?
Psal Noyes 137:5  If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning!
Psal Noyes 137:6  If I do not remember thee, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy!
Psal Noyes 137:7  Remember, O LORD! against the children of Edom The day of the calamity of Jerusalem! Who said, "Raze it, Raze it to its foundations!"
Psal Noyes 137:8  O daughter of Babylon, thou destroyer! Happy be he who requiteth thee As thou hast dealt with us!
Psal Noyes 137:9  Happy be he who seizeth thy little ones And dasheth them against the stones!