Psalms 137

1 By rivers of Babylon—There we sat, Indeed, we wept when we remembered Zion.

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

2 We hung our harps on willows in its midst.

In salicibus in medio ejus suspendimus organa nostra:

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

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

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

Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?

5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgets!

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

6 My tongue cleaves to my palate, If I do not remember you, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.

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

7 Remember, YHWH, for the sons of Edom, The day of Jerusalem, Those saying, “Raze, raze to its foundation!”

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

8 O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the blessedness of him who repays to you your deed, That you have done to us.

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

9 O the blessedness of him who seizes, and has dashed your sucklings on the rock!

Beatus qui tenebit, et allidet parvulos tuos ad petram.