Psalms 137

1 By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion.

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

2 Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps.

In salicibus in medio ejus suspendimus organa nostra:

3 For there they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing 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 [her skill].

Si oblitus fuero tui, Jerusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea.

6 Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember thee not; If I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy.

Adhæreat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui; si non proposuero Jerusalem in principio lætitiæ meæ.

7 Remember, O Jehovah, against the children of Edom The day of Jerusalem; Who said, Rase it, rase it, Even to the foundation thereof.

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

8 O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed, Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee As thou hast served us.

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

9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock.

Beatus qui tenebit, et allidet parvulos tuos ad petram.