We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst [a]thereof.

Then they that led us captive, [b]required of us songs and mirth, when we had hanged up our harps, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

How shall we sing, said we, a song of the Lord in a strange land?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 137:2 To wit, of that country.
  2. Psalm 137:3 The Babylonians speak thus in mocking us, as though by our silence we should signify that we hoped no more in God.

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