An Experience of the Captivity.
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By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
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On the willows in the middle thereof we hanged up our harps.
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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.'
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4
How shall we sing IAUA's song in a foreign land?
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| I-will·he-will·as | we·? | the | ? | IAUA | on | I-will·?
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5
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
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6
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember you not; if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy.
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7
Remember, O IAUA, against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said: 'Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.'
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| male | IAUA | to·in·we·he-will | I-will·? | the | day | he-will·?
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8
O daughter of Babylon, that are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that repays you as you have served us.
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9
Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.
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