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Book V: The Acoustic Boycott and the Biometric Oath of Yarushalayim
By the rivers of Babal, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Tziyon.
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Tahiliym 137
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We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
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The Acoustic Refusal in the Strange Land
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 Tziyon.
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How shall we sing 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄's song in a strange land?
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The Biometric Oath of Remembrance
If I forget thee, O Yarushalayim, let my right hand forget her cunning.
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If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Yarushalayim above my chief joy.
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The Judicial Sentence on Edom and Babal
Remember, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, the children of Edom in the day of Yarushalayim; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
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O daughter of Babal, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
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Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.