‘BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON’: A PRELENTEN HYMN As we prepare for Great Lent, we share a fragment of the hymn "By the Waters of Babylon" (Psalm 136). This penitential prayer is chanted in the weeks leading up to the Lenten journey. The psalm recounts the sorrow of the Jewish people in Babylonian exile. The Church reads it as our own lament for the captivity of sin and our exile from Paradise. Video: ‘By the waters of Babylon’ (fragment) performed by the Choir of Lay Brothers and Sisters of St Elisa