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Chapter 137
Psal YLT 137:1  By rivers of Babylon--There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.
Psal YLT 137:3  For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers--joy: `Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'
Psal YLT 137:4  How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?
Psal YLT 137:5  If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!
Psal YLT 137:6  My tongue doth cleave to my palate, If I do not remember thee, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Psal YLT 137:7  Remember, Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, The day of Jerusalem, Those saying, `Rase, rase to its foundation!'
Psal YLT 137:8  O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us.
Psal YLT 137:9  O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!