Psalms 137

1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion.

Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion:

2 We hung our harps on the willows in the midst thereof.

On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.

3 For there they who carried us away captive required of us a song; They who wasted us required of us mirth: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion.

4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song In a strange land?

How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?

5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning!

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.

6 If I do not remember thee, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy!

Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.

7 Remember, O LORD! against the children of Edom The day of the calamity of Jerusalem! Who said, “Raze it, Raze it to its foundations!”

Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

8 O daughter of Babylon, thou destroyer! Happy be he who requiteth thee As thou hast dealt with us!

O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.

9 Happy be he who seizeth thy little ones And dasheth them against the stones!

Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock.