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Psalm 137
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| 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we
remembered Zion. |
 By the waters of Babylon
(Philip
Hermogenes Calderon, 1852)
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| 137:2
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
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| 137:3
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and
they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs
of Zion.
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| 137:4
How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land? |
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| 137:5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
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"If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth."
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| 137:6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth;
if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
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| 137:7
Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said,
Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. |
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| 137:8
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that
rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. |
 (137:9) "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones."
What the Bible says about children and
family values
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| 137:9
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
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