Thanks. I knew someone would object. I use the translation that leaves no doubt as to the meaning of the last few lines. You can get to the same conclusion by puzzling your way through the antique constructions of the KJV (or are you actually suggesting a different interpretation of those lines?).
DD
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From: [log in to unmask]
Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008 4:49 pm
Subject: Re: Nat Turner Rebellion
To: [log in to unmask]
> Dude:
>
> That version of the Bible didn't exist at the time.
>
> King James:
>
> By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when
> we
> remembered Zion.
> We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
> For there they that carried us away captive required of us a
> song; and they
> that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the
> songs of
> Zion.
> How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?
> If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her
> cunning.
> If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of
> my mouth; if
> I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
> Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem;
> who said,
> Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
> O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he
> be, that
> rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
> Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones
> against the
> stones.
>
>
> In a message dated 11/2/2008 4:43:34 P.M. Eastern Standard
> Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> Psalm 137
>
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