Contents
The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.
The Psalms
The Psalms 137
The Mourning of the Exiles in Babylon |
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By the rivers of Babylon,
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there we sat down, yea, we wept, |
when we remembered Zion. |
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We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
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For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song;
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and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, |
Sing us one of the songs of Zion. |
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How shall we sing the LORD‘s song in a strange land?
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If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,
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let my right hand forget her cunning. |
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If I do not remember thee,
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let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; |
if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. |
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Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom
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in the day of Jerusalem; |
who said, Rase it, rase it, |
even to the foundation thereof. |
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O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed;
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happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Rev. 18.6 |
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Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth
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thy little ones against the stones. |
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