Psalms 137:1-5

¹When we had been taken to Babylonia, far from Jerusalem, we sat down by the rivers there, and we cried when we thought about the temple on Zion Hill in Jerusalem.

²On the willow trees alongside the rivers we hung our harps because we did not want to play them anymore because we were very sad.

³The soldiers who had captured us and taken us to Babylonia told us to sing for them; they told us to ◄entertain them/make them happy►, saying, “Sing for us one of the songs that you previously sang in Jerusalem!”

⁴But we thought , “We are sad because we have been punished by Yahweh and brought to this foreign land, so we cannot RHQ sing songs about Yahweh while we are here!”

⁵If I forget about Jerusalem APO, Iet my right hand wither with the result that I will be unable to play my harp