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 we sat and 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

There on the willows we hung 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 our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song 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 can we sing a song of the LORD 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 you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.

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

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest 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 LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

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, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to 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

Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.