A moment in scripture
Psalms 137:3
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For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
- Psalms 137:2
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
- Psalms 137:4
How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
- Psalms 137:5
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.