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Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth,
    if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
    above my highest joy.

Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites
    the day of Jerusalem’s fall,
how they said, ‘Tear it down! Tear it down!
    Down to its foundations!’
O daughter Babylon, you devastator![a]
    Happy shall they be who pay you back
    what you have done to us!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 137:8 Or you who are devastated

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