Psalms 137

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Howe shall we sing, said we, a 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 Ierusalem, let my right hand forget to play.

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.

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

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

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

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

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