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, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

2 In salicibus in medio eius, suspendimus organa nostra.

We hanged our harps on the willows in the middle 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 that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, 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 Ierusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea.

If I forget you, 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.

If I do not remember you, let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

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

Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; 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 are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewards you as you have served us.

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

Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones against the stones.