Psalms 137

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

Psalmus David, Jeremiæ. [Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus, cum recordaremur Sion.

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

In salicibus in medio ejus suspendimus organa nostra:

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.

quia illic interrogaverunt nos, qui captivos duxerunt nos, verba cantionum; et qui abduxerunt nos: Hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Sion.

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

Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?

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

Si oblitus fuero tui, Jerusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea.

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.

Adhæreat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui; si non proposuero Jerusalem in principio lætitiæ meæ.

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

Memor esto, Domine, filiorum Edom, in die Jerusalem: qui dicunt: Exinanite, exinanite usque ad fundamentum in ea.

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

Filia Babylonis misera! beatus qui retribuet tibi retributionem tuam quam retribuisti nobis.

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

Beatus qui tenebit, et allidet parvulos tuos ad petram.]