Psalms 137:4-9

137:4

How shall we sing
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the LORD'S
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song
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in a strange
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land
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{strange...: Heb. land of a stranger?}

137:5

If I forget
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thee, O Jerusalem
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let my right hand
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forget
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[her cunning].

137:6

If I do not remember
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thee, let my tongue
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cleave
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to the roof of my mouth
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if I prefer
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not Jerusalem
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above my chief
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joy
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{my chief...: Heb. the head of my joy}

137:7

Remember
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O LORD
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the children
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of Edom
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in the day
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of Jerusalem
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who said
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Rase
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[it], rase
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[it, even] to the foundation
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thereof. {Rase it: Heb. Make bare}

137:8

O daughter
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of Babylon
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who art to be destroyed
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happy
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[shall he be], that rewardeth
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thee as thou hast served
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us. {destroyed: Heb. wasted} {rewardeth...: Heb. recompenseth unto thee thy deed which thou didst to us}

137:9

Happy
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[shall he be], that taketh
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and dasheth
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thy little ones
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against the stones
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{the stones: Heb. the rock}