Psalmorum 137

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

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, and we also wept when we remembered Zion.

2 in salicibus in medio eius suspendimus organa nostra

Upon the willows in her midst had we hung 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 our captors demanded of us the words of song; and those that mocked us, joy, [saying, ] Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.

4 quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena

How should we sing the song of the Lord on the soil of the stranger?

5 si oblitus fuero tui Hierusalem oblivioni detur dextera mea

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget—.

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

May my tongue cleave to my palate if I do not remember thee: if I recall not Jerusalem at the head of my joy.

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

Remember, O Lord, unto the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to her very foundation.

8 filia Babylonis misera beatus qui retribuet tibi retributionem tuam quam retribuisti nobis

O daughter of Babylon, who art wasted: happy he, that repayeth thee thy recompense for what thou hast done to us.

9 beatus qui tenebit et adlidet parvulos tuos ad petram

Happy he, that seizeth and dasheth thy babes against the rock.