Psalmorum 137

1 David Hieremiae super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus cum recordaremur Sion

Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion:

2 in salicibus in medio eius suspendimus organa nostra

On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.

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 into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion.

4 quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena

How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?

5 si oblitus fuero tui Hierusalem oblivioni detur dextera mea

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

6 adhereat lingua mea faucibus meis si non meminero tui si non praeposuero Hierusalem in principio laetitiae meae

Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.

7 memor esto Domine filiorum Edom diem Hierusalem qui dicunt exinanite exinanite usque ad fundamentum in ea

Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: 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, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.

9 beatus qui tenebit et adlidet parvulos tuos ad petram

Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock.