Psalms 137
137
PSALM 137
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
1By Babel's streams we sat and wept,
when Sion we thought on.
2In midst thereof we hang'd our harps
the willow-trees upon.
3For there a song required they,
who did us captive bring:
Our spoilers call'd for mirth, and said,
A song of Sion sing.
4O how the Lord's song shall we sing
within a foreign land?
5If thee, Jerus'lem, I forget,
skill part from my right hand.
6My tongue to my mouth's roof let cleave,
if I do thee forget,
Jerusalem, and thee above
my chief joy do not set.
7Remember Edom's children, Lord,
who in Jerus'lems day,
Ev'n unto its foundation,
Raze, raze it quite, did say.
8O daughter thou of Babylon,
near to destruction;
Bless'd shall he be that thee rewards,
as thou to us hast done.
9Yea, happy surely shall he be
thy tender little ones
Who shall lay hold upon,
and them shall dash against the stones.
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Psalms 137
137
1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Tziyon [Parched Place].
2We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us [required of us] gladness, [saying], Sing us [one] of the songs of Tziyon [Parched Place].
4How shall we sing the Lord-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] song in a strange land?
5If I forget youi, O Yerushalayim [Foundation Of Peace], let my right hand forget [her cunning].
6If I do not remember youi, let my tongue cleave (split open; cut open; divide) to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Yerushalayim [Foundation Of Peace] above my chief joy.
7Remember, O Lord-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate], the children of Edom [Red] in the day of Yerushalayim [Foundation Of Peace]; who said, Raze [it], raze [it, even] to the foundation thereof.
8O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy [shall he be], that rewards youi as youi have served us.
9Happy [shall he be], that takes and dashes youri little ones against the stones.
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