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Psalm

How Shall We Sing the LORD's Song?
137 By the waters of Babylon,
        there we sat down and wept,
        when we remembered Zion. ₂On the willows₍₁₎ there
        we hung up our lyres. ₃For there our captors
        required of us songs,
    and our tormentors, mirth, saying,
        “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” ₄How shall we sing the LORD's song
        in a foreign land? ₅If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
        let my right hand forget its skill! ₆Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
        if I do not remember you,
    if I do not set Jerusalem
        above my highest joy! ₇Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites
        the day of Jerusalem,
    how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare,
        down to its foundations!” ₈O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,
        blessed shall he be who repays you
        with what you have done to us! ₉Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
        and dashes them against the rock!

Psalm 137:2 - (1) 137:2 Or *poplars*