Psalmorum 137

1 Psalmus David, Jeremiæ. [Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus, cum recordaremur Sion.

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

2 In salicibus in medio ejus suspendimus organa nostra:

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

3 quia illic interrogaverunt nos, qui captivos duxerunt nos, verba cantionum; et qui abduxerunt nos: Hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Sion.

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 Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?

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

5 Si oblitus fuero tui, Jerusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea.

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

6 Adhæreat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui; si non proposuero Jerusalem in principio lætitiæ meæ.

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 Memor esto, Domine, filiorum Edom, in die Jerusalem: qui dicunt: Exinanite, exinanite usque ad fundamentum in ea.

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 Filia Babylonis misera! beatus qui retribuet tibi retributionem tuam quam retribuisti nobis.

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

9 Beatus qui tenebit, et allidet parvulos tuos ad petram.]

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