Psalm 137:2-4

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²On the willows^[a] there
    we hung up our harps.
³For there our captors
    asked us for songs,
and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying,
    “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

⁴How could we sing the Lord’s song
in a foreign land?

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Psalm 137:2 Or poplars

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