Psalms 137

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

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

2 We hung our harps upon the willows in its midst.

in salicibus in medio eius suspendimus organa nostra

3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

quia illic interrogaverunt nos qui captivos duxerunt nos verba cantionum et qui abduxerunt nos hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Sion

4 How shall we sing the LORD’S song in a foreign land?

quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena

5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her skill.

si oblitus fuero tui Hierusalem oblivioni detur dextera mea

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.

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

7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to its foundation

memor esto Domine filiorum Edom diem Hierusalem qui dicunt exinanite exinanite usque ad fundamentum in ea

8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

filia Babylonis misera beatus qui retribuet tibi retributionem tuam quam retribuisti nobis

9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

beatus qui tenebit et adlidet parvulos tuos ad petram