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title: Psalm 137
slug: kjv/psalm-137
createdAt: 2024-08-28T02:25:45.605Z
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**1 **By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

**2 **We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

**3 **For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us *required of us* mirth, *saying*, Sing us *one* of the songs of Zion.

**4 **How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?

**5 **If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget *her cunning*.

**6 **If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

**7 **Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase *it*, rase *it, even* to the foundation thereof.

**8 **O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy *shall he be*, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

**9 **Happy *shall he be*, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.