Verse
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
By rivers of Babylon --
There
we did
sit,
Yea,
we
wept when we remembered Zion.
By the
rivers of Babylon we sat
and
wept when we remembered Zion.
On willows in
its
midst
we hung our harps .
There
on the
willows we hung our harps ,
For there our captors asked
us
the
words
of
a song ,
And
our spoilers
--
joy: `
Sing ye
to
us of
a song of Zion. '
for there our captors requested
a song ;
our tormentors
demanded
songs
of
joy: “
Sing us a song of Zion. ”
How do
we sing the
song of Jehovah,
On
the land
of
a stranger
?
How can
we sing a
song of the LORD
in
a foreign
land
?
If I forget thee
, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!
If I forget you
, O Jerusalem, may
my right hand cease
to
function.
My tongue doth
cleave
to my palate,
If I do not remember thee
, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above
my chief
joy .
May
my tongue cling
to the
roof
of
my mouth
if I do not remember you
, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as
my greatest
joy !
Remember, Jehovah
, for
the sons of Edom ,
The day of
Jerusalem ,
Those
saying
, `Rase
, rase
to its foundation
! '
Remember, O
LORD
, the sons of Edom on
the day Jerusalem fell:
“Destroy
it
, ”
they
said
, “tear
it
down
to its foundations
! ”
O daughter of Babylon, O
destroyed
one,
O
the
happiness
of
him
who
repayeth
to thee
thy
deed
, That
thou
hast
done to us.
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed
to destruction
, blessed
is
he
who
repays
you
as
you
have
done to us.
O
the
happiness
of
him
who doth
seize,
And hath
dashed
thy
sucklings
on
the rock!
Blessed
is
he
who seizes
your
infants
and dashes
them
against
the rocks.
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