詩篇 137

1 われらバビロンの河のほとりにすわり シオンをおもひいでて涙をながしぬ

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

2 われらそのあたりの柳にわが琴をかけたり

Upon the willows in the midst of it we hung up our harps.

3 そはわれらを虜にせしものわれらに歌をもとめたり 我儕をくるしむる者われらにおのれを歓ばせんとて シオンのうた一つうたへといへり

For there those who led us captive required of us songs, and those who wasted us, mirth, saying, Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.

4 われら外邦にありていかでヱホバの歌をうたはんや

How shall we sing Jehovah's song in a foreign land?

5 エルサレムよもし我なんぢをわすれなばわが右の手にその巧をわすれしめたまへ

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

6 もしわれ汝を思ひいでず もしわれヱルサレムをわがすべての歓喜の極となさずばわが舌をわが腭につかしめたまヘ

Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee, if I do not prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

7 ヱホバよねがはくはヱルサレムの日にエドムの子輩がこれを掃除けその基までもはらひのぞけといへるを聖意にとめたまへ

Remember, O Jehovah, the day of Jerusalem against the sons of Edom, who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof.

8 ほろぼさるべきバビロンの女よ なんぢがわれらに作しごとく汝にむくゆる人はさいはひなるべし

O daughter of Babylon, who is to be destroyed, happy shall he be who rewards thee as thou have served us.

9 なんぢの嬰兒をとりて岩のうへになげうつものは福ひなるべし

Happy shall he be who takes and dashes thy little ones against the rock.