Psalms 137

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

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

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

in salicibus in medio eius suspendimus organa nostra

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.

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

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

quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena

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

si oblitus fuero tui Hierusalem oblivioni detur dextera mea

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

beatus qui tenebit et adlidet parvulos tuos ad petram