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Psalm 137:1

“By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.”

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¹By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

²There on the willows we hung our harps,

³For there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”

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