Psalms 137

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

Psalmus David, propter Hieremiam. 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 eius, 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 Ierusalem, 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.

Adhaereat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui: Si non proposuero Ierusalem, in principio laetitiae meae.

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 Ierusalem: 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 suos ad petram.