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diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_020_PSA_137_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_020_PSA_137_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d3706c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_020_PSA_137_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Psalms. +Chapter 137. +By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion, +Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside. +For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion. +How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land? +If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art. +If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth. +O Lord, keep in mind against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; how they said, Let it be uncovered, uncovered even to its base. +O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us. +Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks. |