Psalms 137

1 At [the] rivers of - Babylon there we sat also we wept when remembered we Zion.

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

2 On poplars in [the] midst of it we hung up harps our.

There on the willows we hung our harps,

3 For there they asked us captors our words of a song and mockers our gladness sing for us one of [the] song[s] of Zion.

for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”

4 How? will we sing [the] song of Yahweh on ground of foreignness.

How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?

5 If I will forget you O Jerusalem may it forget right [hand] my.

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.

6 May it cleave tongue my - to palate my if not I will remember you if not I will lift up Jerusalem above [the] chief of joy my.

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

7 Remember O Yahweh - to [the] people of Edom [the] day of Jerusalem who were saying lay bare - lay bare to the foundation in it.

Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

8 O daughter of Babylon that is about to be destroyed how blessed! [is one] who he will repay to you dealing your that you dealt to us.

O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

9 How blessed! - [is one] who he will seize and he will smash children your to the rock.

Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.