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Psalms 137 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | By the rivers of Babel, there we sat down: also we wept in our remembering 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 | Upon the willows in her midst, we hung our harps; | On the willows there we hung up our lyres. | There on the poplars we hung our harps, | |
| 3 | For there they carrying us away captive asked us the words of a song; and they heaping us up gladness; Sing to us from the song of 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 shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger? | 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 thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten. | 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 | My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my 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, O Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; they saying, Make bare, make bare, even to the foundations in her. | 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 | O daughter of Babel laying waste; happy he recompensing to thee thy retribution thou didst 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 | Happy he taking hold and dashing in pieces thy children against the rock. | 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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