Psalms 137

1 Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion:

By the riuers of Babel we sate, and there wee wept, when we remembred Zion.

2 On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.

Wee hanged our harpes vpon the willowes in the middes thereof.

3 For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion.

Then they that ledde vs captiues, required of vs songs and mirth, when wee had hanged vp our harpes, saying, Sing vs one of the songs of Zion.

4 How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?

Howe shall we sing, said we, a song of the Lord in a strange land?

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

If I forget thee, O Ierusalem, let my right hand forget to play.

6 Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth: yea, if I preferre not Ierusalem to my chiefe ioy.

7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Remember the children of Edom, O Lord, in the day of Ierusalem, which saide, Rase it, rase it to the foundation thereof.

8 O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.

O daughter of Babel, worthy to be destroyed, blessed shall he be that rewardeth thee, as thou hast serued vs.

9 Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock.

Blessed shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy children against the stones.