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By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. |
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We hung our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. |
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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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How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land? |
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If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cleverness. |
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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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Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem's fall, who said, "Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof!" |
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O daughter of Babylon who art to be destroyed, happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. |
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Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. |
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