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Lament over the Destruction of Jerusalem

137 [a]By the waters[b] of Babylon,
there we sat down and wept,
    when we remembered Zion.
On the willows[c] there
    we hung up our lyres.

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Footnotes

  1. 137 This psalm breathes the spirit of sadness and homesickness of the Israelite in exile in Babylon.
  2. Psalm 137:1 Heb streams
  3. Psalm 137:2 Or poplars

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