Psalmorum 137

1 David Hieremiae 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 Hierusalem oblivioni detur dextera mea

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning!

6 adhereat lingua mea faucibus meis si non meminero tui si non praeposuero Hierusalem 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 diem Hierusalem 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 adlidet parvulos tuos ad petram

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