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¹ There by the rivers of Babylon we sat down; also we wept when we remembered Zion.² We hung our lyres on the willows in its midst.³ For there our captors asked us the words of a song; yea, our plunderers asked joy, saying , Sing to us a song of Zion.⁴ How shall we sing the song of Jehovah on a foreign soil?⁵ If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget;⁶ let my tongue cleave to my palate, if I do not remember you, if I do not bring up Jerusalem above the head of my joy.

⁷ O Jehovah, remember for the sons of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said, Make it bare! Make it bare even to its foundation!⁸ O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one! Blessed is he who shall repay to you your recompence which you dealt to us.⁹ Blessed is he who seizes your little ones and dashes them against the stone!