Psalms 137

1 By rivers of Babylon — There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

By the riuers of Babel we sate, and there wee wept, when we remembred Zion.

2 On willows in its midst we hung our harps.

Wee hanged our harpes vpon the willowes in the middes thereof.

3 For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers — joy: 'Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'

Then they that ledde vs captiues, required of vs songs and mirth, when wee had hanged vp our harpes, saying, Sing vs one of the songs of Zion.

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

Howe shall we sing, said we, a song of the Lord in a strange land?

5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!

If I forget thee, O Ierusalem, let my right hand forget to play.

6 My tongue doth cleave to my palate, If I do not remember thee, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth: yea, if I preferre not Ierusalem to my chiefe ioy.

7 Remember, Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, The day of Jerusalem, Those saying, 'Rase, rase to its foundation!'

Remember the children of Edom, O Lord, in the day of Ierusalem, which saide, Rase it, rase it to the foundation thereof.

8 O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us.

O daughter of Babel, worthy to be destroyed, blessed shall he be that rewardeth thee, as thou hast serued vs.

9 O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!

Blessed shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy children against the stones.