Psalms 137

1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

David Hieremiae super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus cum recordaremur Sion

2 There on the willows we hung our harps,

in salicibus in medio eius suspendimus organa nostra

3 for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”

quia illic interrogaverunt nos qui captivos duxerunt nos verba cantionum et qui abduxerunt nos hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Sion

4 How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?

quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena

5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.

si oblitus fuero tui Hierusalem oblivioni detur dextera mea

6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

adhereat lingua mea faucibus meis si non meminero tui si non praeposuero Hierusalem in principio laetitiae meae

7 Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

memor esto Domine filiorum Edom diem Hierusalem qui dicunt exinanite exinanite usque ad fundamentum in ea

8 O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

filia Babylonis misera beatus qui retribuet tibi retributionem tuam quam retribuisti nobis

9 Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

beatus qui tenebit et adlidet parvulos tuos ad petram