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Psalms 137 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when 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 in that land, we hung up our harps. | On the willows there we hung up our lyres. | There on the poplars we hung our harps, | |
| 3 | For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs 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 can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land? | 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, let my right hand forget its skill. | 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 | Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief 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, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!” | 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, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as 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 | Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones 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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