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Chapter 137
Psal OEB 137:1  By the waters of Babylon there we sat, and we wept at the thought of Zion.
Psal OEB 137:3  For there our captors called for a song: our tormentors, rejoicing, saying: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
Psal OEB 137:4  How can we sing the Lord’s song in the foreigner’s land?
Psal OEB 137:5  If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand wither.
Psal OEB 137:6  May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I am unmindful of you, or don’t set Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Psal OEB 137:7  Remember the Edomites, Lord, the day of Jerusalem’s fall, when they said, “Lay her bare, lay her bare, right down to her very foundation.”
Psal OEB 137:8  Babylon, despoiler, happy are they who pay you back for all you have done to us.
Psal OEB 137:9  Happy be they who seize and dash your children against the rocks.