< Psalms 137 >
1 A Psalm of David: to Jeremiah. Above the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept, while we remembered Zion.
Psalmus David, propter Hieremiam. Super flumina Babylonis, illic sedimus et flevimus: cum recordaremur Sion:
2 By the willow trees, in their midst, we hung up our instruments.
In salicibus in medio eius, suspendimus organa nostra.
3 For, in that place, those who led us into captivity questioned us about the words of the songs. And those who carried us away said: “Sing us a hymn from 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 can we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land?
Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?
5 If I ever forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.
Si oblitus fuero tui Ierusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea.
6 May my tongue adhere to my jaws, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem first, as the beginning of my joy.
Adhaereat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui: Si non proposuero Ierusalem, in principio laetitiae meae.
7 O Lord, call to mind the sons of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem, who say: “Despoil it, despoil it, even to its foundation.”
Memor esto Domine filiorum Edom, in die Ierusalem: Qui dicunt: Exinanite, exinanite usque ad fundamentum in ea.
8 O daughter of Babylon, have pity. Blessed is he who will repay you with your payment, which you have paid to us.
Filia Babylonis misera: beatus, qui retribuet tibi retributionem tuam, quam retribuisti nobis.
9 Blessed is he who will take hold of your little ones and dash them against the rock.
Beatus, qui tenebit, et allidet parvulos suos ad petram.