Psalm 137137PsalmsBook 5Douay-Rheims Bible

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1. By the Rivers of Babylon

   (Ezekiel 1:1–3)

2. 1DRAGive glory to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion:BSBBSB: By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
3. 2DRAOn the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.BSBBSB: There on the willows we hung our harps,
4. 3DRAFor there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion.BSBBSB: for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”
5. 4DRAHow shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?BSBBSB: How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?
6. 5DRAIf I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.BSBBSB: If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.
7. 6DRALet my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.BSBBSB: May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!
8. 7DRARemember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.BSBBSB: Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
9. 8DRAO daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.BSBBSB: O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
10. 9DRABlessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock.BSBBSB: Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

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