Psalms 137

1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

Psalmus David, Hieremiæ. Super flumina Babylonis, illic sedimus et flevimus: cum recordaremur Sion:

2 Upon the willows in the midst of it we hung up our harps.

In salicibus in medio eius, suspendimus organa nostra.

3 For there those who led us captive required of us songs, and those who wasted us, mirth, saying, Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.

Quia illic interrogaverunt nos, qui captivos duxerunt nos, verba cantionum: Et qui abduxerunt nos: Hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Sion.

4 How shall we sing Jehovah's song in a foreign land?

Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?

5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget.

Si oblitus fuero tui Ierusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea.

6 Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee, if I do not prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Adhæreat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui: Si non proposuero Ierusalem, in principio lætitiæ meæ.

7 Remember, O Jehovah, the day of Jerusalem against the sons of Edom, who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof.

Memor esto Domine filiorum Edom, in die Ierusalem: Qui dicunt: Exinanite, exinanite usque ad fundamentum in ea.

8 O daughter of Babylon, who is to be destroyed, happy shall he be who rewards thee as thou have served us.

Filia Babylonis misera: beatus, qui retribuet tibi retributionem tuam, quam retribuisti nobis.

9 Happy shall he be who takes and dashes thy little ones against the rock.

Beatus, qui tenebit, et allidet parvulos tuos ad petram.