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Psalm 137

Beside the Rivers of Babylon

Sorrow for Jerusalem

Beside the rivers[a] of Babylon,
there we sat, and, yes, we wept as we remembered Zion.
There we hung up our lyres on the willows,
because there our captors asked us for words of a song,
and our tormentors asked for a happy song:
“Sing for us one of the songs of Zion!”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 137:1 Many of the rivers were in fact canals running off the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.