Psalms 137

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

At [the] rivers of - Babylon there we sat also we wept when remembered we Zion.

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

On poplars in [the] midst of it we hung up harps our.

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.

For there they asked us captors our words of a song and mockers our gladness sing for us one of [the] song[s] of Zion.

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

How? will we sing [the] song of Yahweh on ground of foreignness.

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

If I will forget you O Jerusalem may it forget right [hand] my.

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

May it cleave tongue my - to palate my if not I will remember you if not I will lift up Jerusalem above [the] chief of joy my.

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 O Yahweh - to [the] people of Edom [the] day of Jerusalem who were saying lay bare - lay bare to the foundation in it.

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

O daughter of Babylon that is about to be destroyed how blessed! [is one] who he will repay to you dealing your that you dealt to us.

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

How blessed! - [is one] who he will seize and he will smash children your to the rock.