Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent – Morning Prayer

Psalm 137

1 By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept,*
when we remembered you, O Zion.

2 As for our harps, we hung them up*
on the trees in the midst of that land.

3 For those who led us away captive asked us for a song,
and our oppressors called for mirth:*
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

4 How shall we sing the LORD’S song*
upon an alien soil?

5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,*
let my right hand forget its skill.

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

7 Remember the day of Jerusalem, O LORD,
against the people of Edom,*
who said, “Down with it! down with it!
even to the ground!”

8 O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction,*
happy the one who pays you back
for what you have done to us!

9 Happy shall he be who takes your little ones,*
and dashes them against the rock!


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