Psalms 137

1 For David, [a Psalm] of Jeremias. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat; and wept when we remembered Sion.

われらバビロンの河のほとりにすわり シオンをおもひいでて涙をながしぬ

2 We hung our harps on the willows in the midst of it.

われらそのあたりの柳にわが琴をかけたり

3 For there they that had taken us captive asked of us the words of a song; and they that had carried us away [asked] a hymn, [saying], Sing us [one] of the songs of Sion.

そはわれらを虜にせしものわれらに歌をもとめたり 我儕をくるしむる者われらにおのれを歓ばせんとて シオンのうた一つうたへといへり

4 How should we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

われら外邦にありていかでヱホバの歌をうたはんや

5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [its skill].

エルサレムよもし我なんぢをわすれなばわが右の手にその巧をわすれしめたまへ

6 May my tongue cleave to my throat, if I do not remember you; if I do not prefer Jerusalem as the chief of my joy.

もしわれ汝を思ひいでず もしわれヱルサレムをわがすべての歓喜の極となさずばわが舌をわが腭につかしめたまヘ

7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase [it], rase [it], even to its foundations.

ヱホバよねがはくはヱルサレムの日にエドムの子輩がこれを掃除けその基までもはらひのぞけといへるを聖意にとめたまへ

8 Wretched daughter of Babylon! blessed [shall he be] who shall reward you as you have rewarded us.

ほろぼさるべきバビロンの女よ なんぢがわれらに作しごとく汝にむくゆる人はさいはひなるべし

9 Blessed [shall he be] who shall seize and dash your infants against the rock.

なんぢの嬰児をとりて岩のうへになげうつものは福ひなるべし