There on the poplars(A)
    we hung our harps,(B)
for there our captors(C) asked us for songs,
    our tormentors demanded(D) songs of joy;
    they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”(E)

How can we sing the songs of the Lord(F)
    while in a foreign land?

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We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

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18 Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating(A) and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.(B)

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18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.

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