Psalms
King James Version (KJV)
The actual, original, first printing of the 1611 King James Version (‘HE’ Bible) — Psalms Chapter 137.
1 By the riuers of Babylon, there wee sate downe, yea we wept: when we remembred Zion.
2 Wee hanged our harpes vpon the willowes, in the midst thereof.
3 For there they that carried vs away captiue, required of vs a song, and they that wasted vs, required of vs mirth: saying, Sing vs one of the songs of Zion.3
4 How shall we sing the Lords song: in a strange land?4
5 If I forget thee, O Ierusalem: let my right hand forget her cunning.
6 If I doe not remember thee, let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth; if I preferre not Ierusalem aboue my chiefe ioy.6
7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Ierusalem; who sayd, rase it, rase it: euen to the foundation thereof.7
8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed: happy shall he be that rewardeth thee, as thou hast serued vs.8
9 Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.9
Psalms Chapter 137 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible)
3 Heb. the words of a song. , Heb. layd vs on heapes.4 Heb. land of a stranger.
6 Heb. the head of my ioy.
7 Heb. make bare.
8 Obad. 12, 13. , Heb. wasted. , Heb. that recompenseth vnto thee thy deed which thou didst to vs.
9 Isa.13.16 , Heb. the rocke.
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