GNT · Good News Translation
Psalms
Chapter 137
- 1
By the rivers of Babylon we sat down; there we wept when we remembered Zion.
- 2
On the willows near by we hung up our harps.
- 3
Those who captured us told us to sing; they told us to entertain them: "Sing us a song about Zion."
- 4
How can we sing a song to the LORD in a foreign land?
- 5
May I never be able to play the harp again if I forget you, Jerusalem!
- 6
May I never be able to sing again if I do not remember you, if I do not think of you as my greatest joy!
- 7
Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did the day Jerusalem was captured. Remember how they kept saying, "Tear it down to the ground!"
- 8
Babylon, you will be destroyed. Happy are those who pay you back for what you have done to us---
- 9
who take your babies and smash them against a rock.
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