Psalms 137

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

By the riuers of Babel we sate, and there wee wept, when we remembred Zion.

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

Wee hanged our harpes vpon the willowes in the middes thereof.

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.

Then they that ledde vs captiues, required of vs songs and mirth, when wee had hanged vp our harpes, saying, Sing vs one of the songs of Zion.

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

Howe shall we sing, said we, a song of the Lord in a strange land?

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

If I forget thee, O Ierusalem, let my right hand forget to play.

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.

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth: yea, if I preferre not Ierusalem to my chiefe ioy.

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 the children of Edom, O Lord, in the day of Ierusalem, which saide, Rase it, rase it to the foundation thereof.

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 Babel, worthy to be destroyed, blessed shall he be that rewardeth thee, as thou hast serued vs.

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

Blessed shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy children against the stones.