TEHILIM
(Book of Psalms)
Chapter 137

Tehilim 136

1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2
Upon the willows in the midst thereof we hanged up our harps.
3
For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, and our tormentors asked of us mirth: 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.'
4
How shall we sing HaShem'S song in a foreign land?
5
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
6
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy.

7
Remember, O HaShem, against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said: 'Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.'
8
O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that repayeth thee as thou hast served us.
9
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.
Tehilim 138

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