Psalm 137137PsalmsBook 5The Orthodox Jewish Bible Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha The Holy Bible

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1. By the Rivers of Babylon

   (Ezekiel 1:1–3)

2. 1ENGOJBBy the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we remembered Tziyon.BSBBSB: By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
3. 2ENGOJBWe hung up our kinnorot (lyres) upon the willows in the midst thereof.BSBBSB: There on the willows we hung our harps,
4. 3ENGOJBFor there they that carried us away captive required of us a shir (song); and they that tormented us required of us simchah, saying, Sing us one of the Shir Tziyon.BSBBSB: for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”
5. 4ENGOJBHow shall we sing Shir Hashem in an admat nekhar (foreign land).BSBBSB: How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?
6. 5ENGOJBIf I forget thee, O Yerushalayim, let my yamin (right hand) forget.BSBBSB: If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.
7. 6ENGOJBIf I do not remember thee, let my leshon cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Yerushalayim above my rosh simchah (chief 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. 7ENGOJBRemember, Hashem, the Bnei Edom in the Yom Yerushalayim; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the yesod (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. 8ENGOJBO Bat Bavel, who art to be destroyed, ashrei shall he be, that repayeth thee the gemul thou hast done to us.BSBBSB: O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
10. 9ENGOJBAshrei shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy olalim against the sela.BSBBSB: Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

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