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1By the rivers of Babylon—[#Neh 1.4; Ezek 1.1, 3]
there we sat down, and there we wept
when we remembered Zion.
2On the willows there[#137.2 Or poplars]
we hung up our harps.
3For there our captors[#Ps 80.6]
asked us for songs,
and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4How could we sing the Lord ’s song
in a foreign land?
5If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
let my right hand wither!
6Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth,[#Ezek 3.26]
if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
above my highest joy.
7Remember, O Lord , against the Edomites[#Jer 49.7; Lam 4.22; Ezek 25.12; Ob 10–14]
the day of Jerusalem’s fall,
how they said, “Tear it down! Tear it down!
Down to its foundations!”
8O daughter Babylon, you devastator![#Isa 13.1, 6; Jer 25.12; 50.15; Rev 18.6; #137.8 Or you who are devastated]
Happy shall they be who pay you back
what you have done to us!
9Happy shall they be who take your little ones[#2 Kings 8.12; Isa 13.16]
and dash them against the rock!