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137 - King David, The Book of Psalms (KJV) [1885]

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The Parallel Bible. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments translated out of the Original Tongues: being the Authorised Version arranged in parallel columns with the Revised Version (Oxford University Press, 1885). The Book of Psalms.

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137

1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

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.

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; if I prefer not Jerusalem above † my chief joy.

7 Remember, O Lord,* the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, † Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be † destroyed; happy shall he be,† that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and * dasheth thy little ones against † the stones.

[† ] Heb. the words of a song.

[† ] Heb laid us on heaps.

[† ] Heb. land of a stranger?

[† ] Heb. the head of my joy.

[* ] Obad. 10. &c.

[† ] Heb. Make bare.

[† ] Heb. wasted.

[† ] Heb. that recompenseth unto thee thy deed which thou didst to us.

[* ] Is. 13. 16.

[† ] Heb. the rock.