Psalmorum 137

1 Psalmus David, propter Hieremiam. 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 eius, suspendimus organa nostra.

Upon the willows in the midst thereof we hanged 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 they that led us captive asked of us words of song, and our tormentors asked 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 foreign land?

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

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

6 Adhaereat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui: Si non proposuero Ierusalem, in principio laetitiae meae.

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy.

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

Remember, O LORD, against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said: 'Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.'

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

O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that repayeth thee as thou hast served us.

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

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.