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By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion.^(a)

There we hung up our lyres on the poplar trees,^(b)

for our captors there asked us for songs, and our tormentors, for rejoicing: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion."^(c)

How can we sing the Lord 's song on foreign soil?^(d)

If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.^(e)

May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!^(f)

Remember, Lord , what the Edomites said that day^[a] at Jerusalem: "Destroy it! Destroy it down to its foundations!"^(g)

Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who pays you back what you have done to us.^(h)

Happy is he who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rocks.⁽ⁱ⁾