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Tehillim - Psalms - Chapter 137
Chapter 137
| 1. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, we also wept when we remembered Zion. |
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| 2. On willows in its midst we hung our harps. |
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| 3. For there our captors asked us for words of song and our tormentors [asked of us] mirth, "Sing for us of the song of Zion." |
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| 4. "How shall we sing the song of the Lord on foreign soil?" |
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| 5. If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget [its skill]. |
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| 6. May my tongue cling to my palate, if I do not remember you, if I do not bring up Jerusalem at the beginning of my joy. |
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| 7. Remember, O Lord, for the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem, those who say, "Raze it, raze it, down to its foundation!" |
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| 8. O Daughter of Babylon, who is destined to be plundered, praiseworthy is he who repays you your recompense that you have done to us. |
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| 9. Praiseworthy is he who will take and dash your infants against the rock. |
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