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Psalm 137. Super flumina.
BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, * when we remembered
thee, O Sion.
2 As for our harps, we hanged them up * upon the trees that are
therein.
3 For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song,
and melody in our heaviness: * Sing us one of the songs of Sion.
4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song * in a strange land?
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, * let my right hand forget her
cunning.
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof
of my mouth; * yea, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief
joy.
7 Remember the children of Edom, O LORD, in the day of Jerusalem;
* how they said, Down with it, down with it, even to the ground.
8 O daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery; * yea, happy shall
he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9 Blessed shall he be that taketh thy children, * and throweth
them against the stones.
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