By the Rivers of Babylon
(Ezekiel 1:1–3)
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept Ezk 1:1Ezk 3:15Ezk 1:3Lam 2:10-11Lam 2:18Lam 3:48Ezr 8:21Ezr 8:31
when we remembered Zion.
There on the willows 1 Ezk 26:13Isa 24:8Rev 18:22Amo 8:10Psa 33:2Psa 81:2
we hung our harps,
for there our captors requested a song; Luk 21:6Lam 2:15-16Mic 3:12Psa 9:141Ch 16:7Isa 35:10Jer 26:18Jer 31:12-13
our tormentors demanded songs of joy:
“Sing us a song of Zion.”
How can we sing a song of the LORD Amo 8:3Isa 22:12Hos 9:4Lam 5:14-15Ecc 3:4Isa 49:21
in a foreign land?
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, Dan 6:10-11Jer 51:50Isa 62:1Psa 122:5-9Psa 84:10Zec 11:17Isa 62:6-7Neh 1:2-4
may my right hand cease to function.
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth Ezk 3:26Psa 22:15Isa 41:17Job 29:10Psa 84:10Lam 4:41Th 3:7-9Act 20:24
if I do not remember you,
if I do not exalt Jerusalem
as my greatest joy!
Remember, O LORD, Lam 4:21-22Ezk 25:12-14Jer 49:7-22Oba 1:10-141Sa 15:2Amo 1:11Ezk 35:2Hab 3:13
the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell:
“Destroy it,” they said,
“tear it down to its foundations!”
O Daughter of Babylon, Rev 18:6Isa 14:4-24Jer 25:12-14Isa 21:1Isa 47:1-15Rev 14:8-11Isa 13:1-22Isa 44:28
doomed to destruction,
blessed is he who repays you
as you have done to us.
Blessed is he who seizes your infants Isa 13:16Hos 13:16Nam 3:102Ki 8:12Hos 10:14
and dashes them against the rocks.