{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/jps/psa137.htm","path":"bib/jps/psa137.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/jps/psa137.htm","text":"137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.\n137:2 Upon the willows in the midst thereof we hanged up our harps.\n137:3 For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, and our tormentors asked of us mirth: 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.'\n137:4 How shall we sing the Lord'S song in a foreign land?\n137:5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.\n137:6 Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy.\n137:7 Remember, O the Lord, against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said: 'Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.'\n137:8 O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that repayeth thee as thou hast served us.\n137:9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.","title":"Jewish Publication Society Bible: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 137","type":"page"}