Wallpaper Images Inspired by Basic English Verses for Psalms Chapter 137
Psalms 137:1. By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion,
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Psalms 137:2. Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside.
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Psalms 137:3. 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.
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Psalms 137:4. How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?
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Psalms 137:5. If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.
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Psalms 137:6. 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.
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Psalms 137:7. 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.
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Psalms 137:8. O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.
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Psalms 137:9. Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.
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