Mazmur 137

1 Di tepi sungai-sungai Babel kami duduk dan menangis bila teringat Sion.

A Psalm of David: to Jeremiah. Above the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept, while we remembered Zion.

2 Pada pohon-pohon gandarusa di negeri itu kami gantungkan kecapi kami.

By the willow trees, in their midst, we hung up our instruments.

3 Orang-orang yang menawan kami menyuruh kami menyanyi untuk mereka. Orang-orang yang menindas kami menyuruh kami menyanyikan lagu-lagu gembira, "Nyanyikanlah bagi kami lagu-lagu dari Sion!"

For, in that place, those who led us into captivity questioned us about the words of the songs. And those who carried us away said: “Sing us a hymn from the songs of Zion.”

4 Mungkinkah di negeri asing kami menyanyi bagi TUHAN?

How can we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land?

5 Biarlah aku tak bisa lagi menyanyi jika aku melupakan engkau, Yerusalem!

If I ever forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.

6 Biarlah aku tak bisa lagi menyanyi jika aku melupakan engkau dan tidak menjadikan engkau kesukaanku!

May my tongue adhere to my jaws, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem first, as the beginning of my joy.

7 Ya TUHAN, ingatlah perbuatan orang Edom pada waktu Yerusalem dimusnahkan. Mereka berkata, "Robohkanlah, robohkanlah sampai ke dasar-dasarnya!"

O Lord, call to mind the sons of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem, who say: “Despoil it, despoil it, even to its foundation.”

8 Hai Babel, engkau akan dibinasakan! Berbahagialah orang yang membalas kepadamu kejahatan yang kaulakukan terhadap kami.

O daughter of Babylon, have pity. Blessed is he who will repay you with your payment, which you have paid to us.

9 Berbahagialah orang yang mengambil bayi-bayimu dan mencampakkannya ke bukit batu!

Blessed is he who will take hold of your little ones and dash them against the rock.