Psalms 137

1 By rivers of Babylon — There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

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

2 On willows in its midst we hung our harps.

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

3 For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers — joy: 'Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'

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!”

4 How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?

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

5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!

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

6 My tongue doth cleave to my palate, If I do not remember thee, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.

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!

7 Remember, Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, The day of Jerusalem, Those saying, 'Rase, rase to its foundation!'

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

8 O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us.

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

9 O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!

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