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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1There we sat down and cried— by the rivers of Babylon— as we remembered Zion. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2On the willows there we hung our harps, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3for it was there that our captors asked us for songs and our torturers demanded joy from us, "Sing us one of the songs about Zion!" |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4How are we to sing the song of the LORD on foreign soil? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you, if I don't consider Jerusalem to be more important than my highest joy. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Remember the day of Jerusalem's fall, LORD, because of the Edomites, who kept saying, "Tear it down! Tear it right down to its foundations!" |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Daughter of Babylon! You devastator! How blessed will be the one who pays you back for what you have done to us. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9How blessed will be the one who seizes your young children and pulverizes them against the cliff! |
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