Psalmorum 137

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

By rivers of Babylon—There we sat, Indeed, we wept when we remembered Zion.

2 in salicibus in medio eius suspendimus organa nostra

We hung our harps on willows in its midst.

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 asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers—joy: “Sing to us of a song of Zion.”

4 quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena

How do we sing the song of YHWH, On the land of a stranger?

5 si oblitus fuero tui Hierusalem oblivioni detur dextera mea

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgets!

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

My tongue cleaves to my palate, If I do not remember you, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.

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

Remember, YHWH, for the sons of Edom, The day of Jerusalem, Those saying, “Raze, raze to its foundation!”

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

O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the blessedness of him who repays to you your deed, That you have done to us.

9 beatus qui tenebit et adlidet parvulos tuos ad petram

O the blessedness of him who seizes, and has dashed your sucklings on the rock!