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for it was there that our captors
    asked us for songs
and our torturers demanded joy from us,
    “Sing us one of the songs about Zion!”

How are we to sing the song of the Lord
    on foreign soil?
If I forget you, Jerusalem,
    may my right hand cease to function.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 137:5 Lit. remember