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Hymn · Psalm 137

By Babel's Streams We Sat and Wept

ST. ANNE · C.M. · words from the Scottish Psalter, 1650 · music William Croft

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By Babel's Streams We Sat and Wept ru thee for cap we when s'lem's for eign tive thought in I in did Zi who if with who Je do a us on day, get, land? bring: on. mem tongue how there Ba E my song streams ber to the a bel's For 1. By 2. Lord's 5. Re 4. My 3. O dren, let we ed and cleave, Lord, sing they, wept, re dom's mouth's song we chil roof shall quir sat quite, do my Zi trees it right did not on up song wil part Raze, my skill A the from of low joy raze chief say. set. hand. sing. on. un ru thee, spoil midst its lem, ru called of to sa Je ers there Ev'n Je If Our In ti a for and our on, bove get, said, harps foun and s'lem, for we da thee I mirth, hanged 6. O daughter thou of Babylon, near to destruction; Bless'd shall he be that thee rewards, as thou to us hast done. 7. Yea, happy surely shall he be thy tender little ones Who shall lay hold upon, and them shall dash against the stones. Scottish Psalter, 1650 ST. ANNE C.M. William Croft, 1708

1.By Babel's streams we sat and wept,
when Zion we thought on.
In midst thereof we hanged our harps
the willow-trees upon.

2.For there a song required they,
who did us captive bring:
Our spoilers called for mirth, and said,
A song of Zion sing.

3.O how the Lord's song shall we sing
within a foreign land?
If thee, Jerus'lem, I forget,
skill part from my right hand.

4.My tongue to my mouth's roof let cleave,
if I do thee forget,
Jerusalem, and thee above
my chief joy do not set.

5.Remember Edom's children, Lord,
who in Jerus'lem's day,
Ev'n unto its foundation,
Raze, raze it quite, did say.

6.O daughter thou of Babylon,
near to destruction;
Bless'd shall he be that thee rewards,
as thou to us hast done.

7.Yea, happy surely shall he be
thy tender little ones
Who shall lay hold upon, and them
shall dash against the stones.

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