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.

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 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.

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 Ierusalem: 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 suos ad petram.

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