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:

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

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

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 Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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