詩篇 137

1 當我們坐在巴比倫河畔，一起想熙雍即淚流滿面。

By the waters of Babylon there we sat, and we wept at the thought of Zion.

2 在那地的楊柳間，掛起我們的琴絃。

There on the poplars we hung our harps.

3 因那些俘虜我們的，要我們唱歌，那些迫害我們的，還要我們奏樂：快些來給我們唱一支熙雍的歌!

For there our captors called for a song: our tormentors, rejoicing, saying: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

4 但我們身處外鄉異域，怎能謳唱上主的歌曲？

How can we sing the Lord’s song in the foreigner’s land?

5 耶路撒冷！我如果將您忘掉，願我的右手枯焦！

If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand wither.

6 我若不懷念您，不以耶路撒冷為喜樂，就寧願我的舌頭緊緊貼在我的上顎！

May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I am unmindful of you, or don’t set Jerusalem above my chief joy.

7 上主，求您記住厄東的子民，在耶路撒冷蒙難的時辰，他們曾喊叫說：拆毀，拆毀！夷為平地，一直見到基礎，

Remember the Edomites, Lord, the day of Jerusalem’s fall, when they said, “Lay her bare, lay her bare, right down to her very foundation.”

8 您只知破壞的巴比倫女子！誰若依照您加給我們的災痍，也焄樣報復於您，他就得福祺。

Babylon, despoiler, happy are those who pay you back for all you have done to us.

9 誰若抓起您的嬰兒幼子，摔在盤石上，他就得福祺。

Happy are they who seize and dash your children against the rocks.