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Judaism

Psalms 137

Text

1

By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion.

2

Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps.

3

For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, And our tormentors asked of us mirth: ‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion.'

4

How shall we sing the LORD’S song In a foreign land?

5

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning.

6

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember thee not; If I set not Jerusalem Above my chiefest joy.

7

Remember, O LORD, against the children of Edom The day of Jerusalem; Who said: 'Rase it, rase it, Even to the foundation thereof.'

8

O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be, that repayeth thee As thou hast served us.

9

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock.

Text: The Holy Scriptures, Jewish Publication Society (1917), public domain, via Sefaria.