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¹ By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.

² On the willows[1] there we hung up our lyres.

³ For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

⁴ ⓐ How shall we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land?

⁵ If I forget you, O Jerusalem, ⓑlet my right hand forget its skill!

⁶ Let myⓒ tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!

⁷ Remember, O LORD, against theⓓ Edomites ⓔthe day of Jerusalem, how they said,ⓕ “Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!”

⁸ O daughter of Babylon,ⓖ doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be whoⓗ repays you with what you have done to us!

⁹ Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones andⓘ dashes them against the rock!

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1	By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.
2	On the willows[1] there we hung up our lyres.
3	For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4	ⓐ How shall we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land?
5	If I forget you, O Jerusalem, ⓑlet my right hand forget its skill!
6	Let myⓒ tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!
7	Remember, O LORD, against theⓓ Edomites ⓔthe day of Jerusalem, how they said,ⓕ “Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!”
8	O daughter of Babylon,ⓖ doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be whoⓗ repays you with what you have done to us!
9	Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones andⓘ dashes them against the rock!

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