Psalmorum 137

1 Psalmus David, Ieremiæ. Super flumina Babylonis, illic sedimus et flevimus: cum recordaremur Sion:

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

2 In salicibus in medio eius, suspendimus organa nostra.

On willows in its midst we hung 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 our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers — joy: 'Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'

4 Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?

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

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

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

6 Adhæreat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui: Si non proposuero Ierusalem, in principio lætitiæ meæ.

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

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

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

8 Filia Babylonis misera: beatus, qui retribuet tibi retributionem tuam, quam retribuisti nobis.

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

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

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