Psalms 137

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

By rivers of Babylon — There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

2 Upon the willows in the midst thereof we hanged up our harps.

On willows in its midst we hung our harps.

3 For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, and our tormentors asked of us mirth: 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.'

For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers — joy: 'Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'

4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land?

How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?

5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!

6 Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy.

My tongue doth cleave to my palate, If I do not remember thee, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.

7 Remember, O LORD, against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said: 'Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.'

Remember, Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, The day of Jerusalem, Those saying, 'Rase, rase to its foundation!'

8 O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that repayeth thee as thou hast served us.

O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us.

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

O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!