Psalms 137

1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept when we thought about Zion.

當我們坐在巴比倫河畔，一起想熙雍即淚流滿面。

2 On the poplars there we hung our harps.

在那地的楊柳間，掛起我們的琴絃。

3 There our captors required songs from us, and those who mocked us required us to be happy, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

因那些俘虜我們的，要我們唱歌，那些迫害我們的，還要我們奏樂：快些來給我們唱一支熙雍的歌!

4 How could we sing a song about Yahweh in a foreign land?

但我們身處外鄉異域，怎能謳唱上主的歌曲？

5 If I ignore the memory of you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her skill.

耶路撒冷！我如果將您忘掉，願我的右手枯焦！

6 Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I think about you no more, if I do not prefer Jerusalem more than my greatest delights.

我若不懷念您，不以耶路撒冷為喜樂，就寧願我的舌頭緊緊貼在我的上顎！

7 Call to mind, Yahweh, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. They said, “Tear it down, tear it down to its foundations.”

上主，求您記住厄東的子民，在耶路撒冷蒙難的時辰，他們曾喊叫說：拆毀，拆毀！夷為平地，一直見到基礎，

8 Daughter of Babylon, soon to be destroyed— may the person be blessed, whoever pays you back for what you have done to us.

您只知破壞的巴比倫女子！誰若依照您加給我們的災痍，也焄樣報復於您，他就得福祺。

9 May the person be blessed, whoever takes and dashes your little ones against a rock.

誰若抓起您的嬰兒幼子，摔在盤石上，他就得福祺。