Encouragement from Psalms 5-17-24

Psalm 137

New American Standard Bible

An Experience of the Captivity.

137 By the rivers of Babylon,

There we sat down and wept,

When we remembered Zion.

2 Upon the [a]willows in the midst of it

We hung our [b]harps.

3 For there our captors [c]demanded of us [d]songs,

And our tormentors, jubilation, saying,

“Sing for us one of the songs of Zion!”

4 How can we sing the Lord’s song

In a foreign land?

5 If I forget you, Jerusalem,

May my right hand [e]forget its skill.

6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth

If I do not remember you,

If I do not [f]exalt Jerusalem

Above my chief joy.

7 Remember, Lord, against the sons of Edom

The day of Jerusalem,

Those who said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare

To its foundation!”

8 Daughter of Babylon, you [g]devastated one,

Blessed will be one who repays you

With [h]the retribution with which you have repaid us.

9 Blessed will be one who seizes and dashes your children

Against the rock.

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