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Psalm 137:1-2
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Psalm 137:1-2
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Lament over the Destruction of Jerusalem
137 [a]By the waters[b] of Babylon,
there we sat down and wept,
when we remembered Zion.
2 On the willows[c] there
we hung up our lyres.
Footnotes
- 137 This psalm breathes the spirit of sadness and homesickness of the Israelite in exile in Babylon.
- Psalm 137:1 Heb streams
- Psalm 137:2 Or poplars
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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