Psalmi 137

1 Ob babilonskih rekah, tam smo se usedli; da, jokali smo, ko smo se spominjali Siona.

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

2 Svoje harfe smo obesili na vrbe v njegovi sredi.

There on the willows we hung our harps,

3 Kajti tam so tisti, ki so nas odvedli proč ujete, od nas zahtevali pesem in tisti, ki so nas opustošili, so od nas zahtevali veselje, rekoč: »Zapojte nam eno izmed sionskih pesmi.«

for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”

4 Kako naj bi v tuji deželi peli Gospodovo pesem?

How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?

5 Če jaz pozabim tebe, oh Jeruzalem, naj moja desnica pozabi svojo spretnost.

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.

6 Če se te jaz ne spomnim, naj se moj jezik prilepi k nebu mojih ust, če ne povišam Jeruzalema nad svojo glavno radost.

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

7 Spomni se, oh Gospod, na Jeruzalemov dan otrok Edóma, ki so rekli: »Izbrišite ga, izbrišite ga, celo do njegovih temeljev.«

Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

8 Oh hči babilonska, ki boš uničena, srečen bo tisti, ki te poplača, kakor si nam ti služila.

O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

9 Srečen bo tisti, ki zgrabi in trešči tvoje malčke ob kamne.

Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.