Psalms 137

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

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

2 On willows in its midst we hung our harps.

in salicibus in medio eius suspendimus organa nostra

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.'

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

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

quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena

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

si oblitus fuero tui Hierusalem oblivioni detur dextera mea

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

beatus qui tenebit et adlidet parvulos tuos ad petram