...Zion... How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign 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 do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy... Psalm 137...

...songs of Zion. How can 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.2 Psalm 137 has been the basis for countless religious songs...

...narrative - not Exodus but a diasporic one from the Psalms: "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" (Psalm 137). A southerner and speaking from within the dominant...

...rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! we wept when we remembered Zion. . . . 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." Fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I...

...we sing the LORD'S song in a strange Land? If I forget thee, C) Jerusalem, let my right hand foreet her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue...roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief ioy. Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem: who said, Rase it, rase...

...years ago, the Psalmist wrote of Jerusalem, "IfI forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right handforget her cunning. If I do not rememBer thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jensalem aBove my chiefjoy." DIVIDING THE INDIVISIBLE At the Camp David meetings, the US and Israel...

...songs of Zion. How can 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." Fellow-citizens; above your national, tumultuous joy, I...

...songs of Zion. How can 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." 261 Fellow-citizens; above your national, tumultuous joy,...

...but I will never forget. These next lines at once intensify and reverse the grief at captivity: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget her cunning. May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I remember not Jerusalem above my chief joy." Notice...

...the Hebrew Bible, the poet of Psalm 137 declares fervently, "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." Both passages are describing the effects of a stroke or...