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                        By the Waters of Babylon
                               Psalm 137


1.   By the waters of Babylon, there we wept and there sat down; Hung our
     harps on the willow trees; Zion, yet we remembered thee! Then our captors
     required of us: "Sing a song of Zion now!" Could we sing the Eternal's
     songs by the waters of Babylon?

2.   Let my right hand forget her skill, if Jerusalem I forget; If I fail to
     remember thee, let my tongue cleave unto my mouth! But we thought of
     Jerusalem when we sat near Zion's streams; Far above even our chief joy,
     we remembered Jerusalem.

3.   In that day of Jerus'lem's fall, when the children of Edom said, "Down
     with her, down unto the ground, even to the foundations!" O thou daughter
     of Babylon, to thy ruin hast'ning on; Happy he that rewardeth thee, just as
     thou unto us hast done.