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Psaume 137

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1 Au bord des fleuves ╵de Babylone, nous nous étions assis ╵et nous pleurions en pensant à Sion.[1] (Ez 1:1; Ez 3:15; Da 8:2) 2 Aux saules de cette contrée, nous avions suspendu nos lyres. 3 Ceux qui nous avaient déportés ╵nous demandaient des chants, nos oppresseurs ╵réclamaient d’être réjouis: « Chantez-nous, disaient-ils, quelque chant de Sion! » 4 Comment peut-on chanter ╵les chants de l’Eternel sur un sol étranger? 5 Si jamais je t’oublie, ╵Jérusalem, que ma main droite ╵perde sa force! 6 Et que ma langue ╵se colle à mon palais si je ne pense plus ╵à toi, Jérusalem, si je ne te mets plus avant toute autre joie. 7 Souviens-toi, Eternel, ╵des Edomites[2] qui en ce jour ╵du malheur de Jérusalem, criaient bien fort: ╵« Rasez-la donc, rasez jusqu’à ses fondations! » (Ez 35:12) 8 O Dame Babylone, ╵tu seras dévastée! Heureux qui te rendra tout le mal que tu nous as fait! 9 Heureux qui saisira ╵tes nourrissons pour les briser contre le roc[3]! (Is 13:16; Os 14:1; Na 3:10) 

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Psaume 137

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1 By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 On the willows[1] 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? (Ne 2:3) 5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill! (Ps 76:5) 6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy! (Jb 29:10; Ez 3:26) 7 Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!” (Jb 18:20; Is 34:5; Jr 49:7; La 4:21; Ez 25:12; Ez 35:2; Am 1:11; Ab 1:8; Ha 3:13; So 2:14) 8 O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us! (Ps 28:4; Is 13:1; Is 21:9; Is 47:1; Jr 25:12; Jr 50:1; Jr 51:1; Jr 51:24; Jr 51:56) 9 Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock! (2R 8:12; Is 13:16; Os 10:14; Na 3:10) 

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