Psalms 137
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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
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Psalm 137
Lament of the Exiles
1By the rivers of Babylon —
there we sat down and wept
when we remembered Zion.#Ezk 1:1,3
2There we hung up our lyres
on the poplar trees,#Jb 30:31; Ezk 26:13
3for our captors there asked us for songs,
and our tormentors, for rejoicing:
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”#Ps 80:6
4How can we sing the Lord’s song
on foreign soil?#Neh 12:46
5If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.#Is 65:11
6May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!#Jb 29:10; Ps 22:15; Ezk 3:26
7Remember, Lord, what the Edomites said
that day#137:7 The day Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in 586 BC at Jerusalem:
“Destroy it! Destroy it
down to its foundations!” #Is 34:5–6; Ezk 35:2; Ob 10–14
8Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.#Jr 50:1–46; 51:1–64
9Happy is he who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rocks.#2Kg 8:12; Is 13:16; Nah 3:10
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