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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1By the rivers of Babylon--there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2There we hung up our lyres on the poplar trees, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3for our captors there asked us for songs, and our tormentors, for rejoicing: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4How can we sing the LORD's song on foreign soil? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Remember, LORD, what the Edomites said that day at Jerusalem: "Destroy it! Destroy it down to its foundations!" |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who pays you back what you have done to us. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Happy is he who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rocks. |
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