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- By the waters of Babylon we sat downe there: also we wept when we remembred Sion.
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- We hanged our harpes on the Salon trees: in the mydst of it.
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- For there they that led vs away captiue required of vs some matter of a song: and [for] our waylynges myrth, [saying] sing vs one of the songes of Sion.
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- [He aunswered] howe can we sing one of the songes of God: in another lande besides our owne?
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- If I forget thee O Hierusalem: let my right hande forget [her cunning.]
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- Let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth, if I do not remember thee: yea if I preferre not thee O Hierusalem aboue my most myrth.
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- Remember the chyldren of Edom in the day of Hierusalem: they sayde, downe with it, downe with it, euen to the grounde.
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- O daughter of Babylon who must lye wasted: happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast serued vs.
- 9
- Blessed shall he be: that taketh & throweth thy litle children against the stone.
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