How shall we sing, said we, a song of the Lord in a strange land?

[a]If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget to play.

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth: yea, if I prefer not Jerusalem to my [b]chief joy.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 137:5 Albeit the faithful are touched with their particular griefs, yet the common sorrow of the Church is most grievous unto them, and is such as they cannot but remember and lament.
  2. Psalm 137:6 The decay of God’s religion in their country was so grievous, that no joy could make them glad, except it were restored.

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