We Wept When We Remembered Zion
By the arivers of Babylon,There we sat and also bwept,When we remembered Zion.Ezek 1:1, 3Neh 1:42 Upon the 1awillows in the midst of itWe bhung our lyres.Or poplarsLev 23:40; Is 44:4Job 30:31; Is 24:8; Ezek 26:133 For there our captors aasked us about the words of a song,And bour tormentors asked joyfully, saying,“Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.”Ps 80:6Is 49:17
4 How can we sing a song of aYahwehIn a foreign land?2 Chr 29:27; Neh 12:465 If I aforget you, O Jerusalem,May my right hand 1forget her skill.Become lameIs 65:116 May my atongue cling to the roof of my mouthIf I do not remember you,If I do not 1bexalt JerusalemAbove my chief joy.Lit cause to ascendJob 29:10; Ps 22:15; Ezek 3:26Neh 2:3
7 Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of aEdomThe day of Jerusalem,Who said, “Tear it down! Tear it downbTo its very foundation.”Ps 83:4-8; Is 34:5, 6; Jer 49:7-22; Lam 4:21; Ezek 25:12-14; 35:2; Amos 1:11; Obad 10-14Ps 74:7; Hab 3:138 O daughter of Babylon, you adevastated one,How blessed will be the one who brepays youWith 1the recompense with which you have recompensed us.Lit yourIs 13:1-22; 47:1-15; Jer 25:12; 50:1-46; 51:1-64Jer 50:15; 51:24, 35, 36, 49; Rev 18:69 How blessed will be the one who seizes and adashes your infantsAgainst the cliff.2 Kin 8:12; Is 13:16; Hos 13:16; Nah 3:10