[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.

Remember the children of [c]Edom, O Lord, in the [d]day of Jerusalem, which said, Raze it, raze it to the foundation thereof.

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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.
  3. Psalm 137:7 According as Ezekiel 25:13 and Jer. 49:7, prophesied: and Obadiah, verse 10, showeth that the Edomites which came of Esau, conspired with the Babylonians against their brethren and kinsfolk.
  4. Psalm 137:7 When thou didst visit Jerusalem.

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