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Go before us, O Lord, in all our doings with your most gracious favor, and further us with your continual help; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in you, we may glorify your holy Name, and finally, through your mercy, obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Psalm 137 · Commontide

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Psalm 137

For David, a Psalm of Jeremias.

By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered you, O Zion.

As for our harps, we hung them up upon the trees that are therein.

For those who led us away captive required of us a song and melody in our heaviness: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

How shall we sing the Lord’s song in the land of our captivity?

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.

If I do not remember you, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my dearest joy.

Remember the children of Edom, O Lord, in the day of Jerusalem, how they said, “Down with it, down with it, even to the ground.”

O daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery, happy shall be the one who rewards you as you have done to us.

Blessed shall he be who takes your children and throws them against the stones.

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