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## We Wept When We Remembered Zion
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By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat and also wept, When we remembered Zion.
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Upon the willows in the midst of it We hung our lyres.
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For there our captors asked us about the words of a song, And our tormentors _asked_ joyfully, _saying_, "Sing for us one of the songs of Zion."
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How can we sing a song of Yahweh In a foreign land?
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If I forget you, O Jerusalem, May my right hand forget _her skill_.
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May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth If I do not remember you, If I do not exalt Jerusalem Above my chief joy.
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Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, "Tear it down! Tear it down To its very foundation."
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O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, How blessed will be the one who repays you With the recompense with which you have recompensed us.
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How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your infants Against the cliff.