Psalms 137

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

David Hieremiae super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus cum recordaremur Sion

2 We hung our harps on willows in its midst.

in salicibus in medio eius 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 Hierusalem 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.

adhereat lingua mea faucibus meis si non meminero tui si non praeposuero Hierusalem in principio laetitiae meae

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

memor esto Domine filiorum Edom diem Hierusalem 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 adlidet parvulos tuos ad petram