Psalmorum 137

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

By rivers of Babylon — There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

2 In salicibus in medio ejus suspendimus organa nostra:

On willows in its midst we hung 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 our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers — joy: 'Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'

4 Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?

How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?

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

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!

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

My tongue doth cleave to my palate, If I do not remember thee, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.

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

Remember, Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, The day of Jerusalem, Those saying, 'Rase, rase to its foundation!'

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

O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us.

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

O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!