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Psalms 137
Ballad of the exiles
1 Beside the streams of Babylon we sat and wept at the memory of Zion,
2 leaving our harps hanging on the poplars there.
3 For we had been asked to sing to our captors, to entertain those who had carried us off: ‘Sing’ they said ‘some hymns of Zion’.
4 How could we sing one of Yahweh’s hymns in a pagan country?
5 Jerusalem, if I forget you, may my right hand wither!
6 May I never speak again, if I forget you! If I do not count Jerusalem the greatest of my joys!
7 Yahweh, remember what the Sons of Edom did on the day of Jerusalem,[*a] how they said, ‘Down with her! Raze her to the ground!’
8 Destructive Daughter of Babel, a blessing on the man who treats you as you have treated us,
9 a blessing on him who takes and dashes your babies against the rock!