New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition, 1993

Psalms Chapter 137 (NRSVCE)

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¹ By the rivers of Babylon — there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion.

² On the willows [1] there we hung up our harps.

³ For there our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

⁴ How could we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?

⁵ If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither!

⁶ Let my tongue cling 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’s fall, how they said, “Tear it down! Tear it down! Down to its foundations!”

⁸ O daughter Babylon, you devastator! [2] Happy shall they be who pay you back what you have done to us!

⁹ Happy shall they be who take your little ones and dash them against the rock!

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1	By the rivers of Babylon — there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion.
2	On the willows [1] there we hung up our harps.
3	For there our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4	How could we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?
5	If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither!
6	Let my tongue cling 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’s fall, how they said, “Tear it down! Tear it down! Down to its foundations!”
8	O daughter Babylon, you devastator! [2] Happy shall they be who pay you back what you have done to us!
9	Happy shall they be who take your little ones and dash them against the rock!

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