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Psalm 137:2-4
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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

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

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  1. Psalm 137:2 Or poplars
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Psalm 137:2-4
New International Version

2 There on the poplars(A)
    we hung our harps,(B)
3 for there our captors(C) asked us for songs,
    our tormentors demanded(D) songs of joy;
    they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”(E)

4 How can we sing the songs of the Lord(F)
    while in a foreign land?

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