Psalmorum 137

1 Psalmus David, propter Hieremiam. 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.

Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged 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 they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

4 Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?

How shall we sing Jehovah’s song In a foreign land?

5 Si oblitus fuero tui Ierusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea.

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget [her skill].

6 Adhaereat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui: Si non proposuero Ierusalem, in principio laetitiae meae.

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember thee not; If I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy.

7 Memor esto Domine filiorum Edom, in die Ierusalem: Qui dicunt: Exinanite, exinanite usque ad fundamentum in ea.

Remember, O Jehovah, against the children of Edom The day of Jerusalem; Who said, 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, that art to be destroyed, Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee As thou hast served us.

9 Beatus, qui tenebit, et allidet parvulos suos ad petram.

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock.