| Holman Christian Standard Bible | Berean Study Bible |
| 1By the rivers of Babylon-- there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion. | 1By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. |
| 2There we hung up our lyres on the poplar trees, | 2There on the willows we hung our harps, |
| 3for our captors there asked us for songs, and our tormentors, for rejoicing:" Sing us one of the songs of Zion." | 3for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.” |
| 4How can we sing the LORD's song on foreign soil? | 4How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land? |
| 5If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. | 5If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function. |
| 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! | 6May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy! |
| 7Remember, LORD, what the Edomites said that day at Jerusalem:" Destroy it! Destroy it down to its foundations!" | 7Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!” |
| 8Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who pays you back what you have done to us. | 8O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us. |
| 9Happy is he who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rocks. | 9Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. |
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