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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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/psalms/137.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="psalmhdg">Psalm 137</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/137-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept</p><p class="line2">when we remembered Zion.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/137-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>There on the poplars</p><p class="line2">we hung our harps,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/137-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>for there our captors asked us for songs,</p><p class="line2">our tormentors demanded songs of joy;</p><p class="line2">they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/137-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>How can we sing the songs of the <span class="name">Lord</span></p><p class="line2">while in a foreign land?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/137-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If I forget you, Jerusalem,</p><p class="line2">may my right hand forget its skill.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/137-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth</p><p class="line2">if I do not remember you,</p><p class="line1">if I do not consider Jerusalem</p><p class="line2">my highest joy.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/137-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Remember, <span class="name">Lord</span>, what the Edomites did</p><p class="line2">on the day Jerusalem fell.</p><p class="line1">“Tear it down,” they cried,</p><p class="line2">“tear it down to its foundations!”</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/137-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,</p><p class="line2">happy is the one who repays you</p><p class="line2">according to what you have done to us.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/137-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Happy is the one who seizes your infants</p><p class="line2">and dashes them against the rocks.</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International 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