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Chapter 137
Psal RLT 137:1  By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Psal RLT 137:2  We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
Psal RLT 137:3  For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Psal RLT 137:4  How shall we sing Yhwh's song in a strange land?
Psal RLT 137:5  If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
Psal RLT 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 RLT 137:7  Remember, O Yhwh, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
Psal RLT 137:8  O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Psal RLT 137:9  Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.