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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2There on the poplars we hung our harps, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land? |
| 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 cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. "Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundations!" |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. |
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