Psalms 137 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 There we sat down and cried— by the rivers of Babylon— as we remembered Zion. By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
2 On the willows there we hung our harps, On the willows there we hung up our lyres. There on the poplars we hung our harps,
3 for 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!| For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4 How are we to sing the song of the LORD on foreign soil? How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land? How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function. If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill! If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.
6 May 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. Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy! May 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 Remember the day of Jerusalem's fall, LORD, because of the Edomites, who kept saying, |Tear it down! Tear it right down to its foundations!| Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!” Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. “Tear it down,” they cried, “tear it down to its foundations!”
8 Daughter of Babylon! You devastator! How blessed will be the one who pays you back for what you have done to us. O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us! Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us.
9 How blessed will be the one who seizes your young children and pulverizes them against the cliff! Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock! Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
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