Psalms 137

1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, and we also wept when we remembered Zion.

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

2 Upon the willows in her midst had we hung up our harps.

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

3 For there our captors demanded of us the words of song; and those that mocked us, joy, [saying, ] Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.

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.

4 How should we sing the song of the Lord on the soil of the stranger?

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

5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget—.

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

6 May my tongue cleave to my palate if I do not remember thee: if I recall not Jerusalem at the head of my joy.

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

7 Remember, O Lord, unto the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to her very foundation.

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

8 O daughter of Babylon, who art wasted: happy he, that repayeth thee thy recompense for what thou hast done to us.

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

9 Happy he, that seizeth and dasheth thy babes against the rock.

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