| 1 ¶ By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
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| 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
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| 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song;1 and they that wasted2 us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
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| 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange3 land?
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| 5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
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| 6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief4 joy.
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| 7 ¶ Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it5, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
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| 8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed;6 happy shall he be, that rewardeth7 thee as thou hast served us.
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| 9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.8
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