Psalm 137 - ESV Online - Literal Word

PSALM 137

How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?

137:1

By the waters of Babylon,

there we sat down and wept,

when we remembered Zion. 2

On the willows there

we hung up our lyres. 3

For there our captors

required of us songs,

and our tormentors, mirth, saying,

“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4

How shall we sing the Lord’s song

in a foreign land? 5

If I forget you, O Jerusalem,

let my right hand forget its skill! 6

Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,

if I do not remember you,

if I do not set Jerusalem

above my highest joy!
7

Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites

the day of Jerusalem,

how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare,

down to its foundations!” 8

O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,

blessed shall he be who repays you

with what you have done to us! 9

Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones

and dashes them against the rock!

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