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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 137 Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/137.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/137-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">HPBT</a> > Psalm 137</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/136.htm" title="Psalm 136">◄</a> Psalm 137 <a href="../psalms/138.htm" title="Psalm 138">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/137-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/137-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>By the rivers of Babel, there we sat and we wept, when we remembered Zion.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/137-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>Upon the willows within it we hung our harps.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/137-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>Because there they asked and they wanted the words of songs, and those leading us said to us, "Sing to us of the songs of Zion.”<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/137-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>How will we sing to you the praises of LORD JEHOVAH in a foreign land?<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/137-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>If I forget you, oh, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget me!<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/137-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>And let my tongue cleave to the roof of my palate, unless I remember you, unless I shall go up to Jerusalem, my chief joy!<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/137-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>LORD JEHOVAH has remembered the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, when they said, "Lay bare, lay bare unto its foundations"!<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/137-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>Daughter of Babel, destroyer, Blessed is he who will pay you the reward which you have paid us!<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/137-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>Blessed is he who will seize your infants and will dash the rocks! 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