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137:1 By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. 137:2 On the willows there we hung up our lyres. 137:3 For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion!' 137:4 How shall we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land? 137:5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither! 137:6 Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy! 137:7 Remember, O LORD, against the E'domites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, 'Rase it, rase it! Down to its foundations!' 137:8 O daughter of Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall he be who requites you with what you have done to us! 137:9 Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!