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LEB PSA Chapter 137

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Lament During the Babylonian Exile

there we sat, yes, we wept,
when we remembered Zion.
2 the willows[fn] in her midst, we hung up our lyres.
3  words of a song,
and our tormentors[fn] asked of us jubilation,
“Sing for us from a song of Zion.”
4  in[fn]
5  let my right hand forget.[fn]
6  if I do not remember you,
if do not I exalt Jerusalem
above my highest joy.
7  the day of Jerusalem,
the ones who said, “Lay it bare! Lay it bare
to its foundation!”
8  happy shall be he who pays back to you
[fn]
9 shall be he who seizes and smashes your children
against the rock.

137:? Species of tree uncertain

137:? Only occurring once in the MT, this interpretation is uncertain. The LXX’s “carried us captive” is a guess. If related to the Hebrew root yll it might have the idea of “mockers/yammerers”

137:? Literally “a land of a foreigner”

137:? That is, how to play a musical instrument

137:? Literally “with what you treated us”