Psalms 137

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

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

2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

We hung our harps on the willows in the midst thereof.

3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that made us wail [required] mirth, [saying, ] Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.

For there they who carried us away captive required of us a song; They who wasted us required of us mirth: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

4 How should we sing a song of Jehovah's upon a foreign soil?

How shall we sing the LORD'S song In a strange land?

5 If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [its skill];

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning!

6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to my palate: if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

If I do not remember thee, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy!

7 Remember, O Jehovah, against the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, Lay [it] bare, Lay [it] bare, down to its foundation!

Remember, O LORD! against the children of Edom The day of the calamity of Jerusalem! Who said, “Raze it, Raze it to its foundations!”

8 Daughter of Babylon, who art to be laid waste, happy he that rendereth unto thee that which thou hast meted out to us.

O daughter of Babylon, thou destroyer! Happy be he who requiteth thee As thou hast dealt with us!

9 Happy he that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.

Happy be he who seizeth thy little ones And dasheth them against the stones!