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Psalm 137:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
Psalm 137:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 Then they that led us captive, [a]required of us songs and mirth, when we had hanged up our harps, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4 How shall we sing, said we, a song of the Lord in a strange land?
5 [b]If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget to play.
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- 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.
- Psalm 137:5 Albeit the faithful are touched with their particular griefs, yet the common sorrow of the Church is most grievous unto them, and is such as they cannot but remember and lament.
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)
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