And those who aplundered us requested mirth,
Saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
Let my atongue cling to the roof of my mouth—
If I do not exalt Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.
The day of Jerusalem,
Who said,1 “Raze it, raze it,
To its very foundation!”
Happy the one bwho repays you as you have served us!
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Psalms 137:4
How shall we sing the Lord' s song - eich ! nashir ; O, we sing! Who does not hear the deep sigh in the strongly guttural sound of the original eich ! wrung, as it were, from the bottom of the heart? Can We, in this state of slavery, - We, exiles, from our country, We, stripped of all our property, - We, reduced to contempt by our strong enemy, - We, deprived of our religious privileges, - We, insulted by our oppressors, - We, in the land of heathens, - We sing, or be mirthful in these circumstances? No: God does not expect it; man should not wish it; and it is base in our enemies to require it.
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