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Hymn · Psalm 137

By Babel's Streams We Sat and Wept

ST. ETHELDREDA · C.M. · words from the Scottish Psalter, 1650 · music Thomas Turton

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By Babel's Streams We Sat and Wept cap for thee ru s'lem's for eign tive thought in I in did Zi we Je do a us on get, day, land? bring: on. ber to the a bel's mem tongue how there Ba Lord's E my song streams For 1. By 2. 5. Re 4. My 3. O Lord, cleave, sing they, wept, dren, let we ed and who if with who when song dom's mouth's roof chil re shall quir sat we quite, do my Zi trees skill did not right on up wil song Raze, my it joy from of low raze chief part say. set. hand. sing. on. to sa Je ers there un ru s'lem, for we A thee, its lem, ru called of spoil midst Ev'n Je If Our In and ti a for our and the on, bove get, said, harps da thee I mirth, hanged foun 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. ETHELDREDA C.M. Thomas Turton, 1860

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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