Psalms 137

1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

Psalmus David, propter Hieremiam. Super flumina Babylonis, illic sedimus et flevimus: cum recordaremur Sion:

2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

In salicibus in medio eius, suspendimus organa nostra.

3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that made us wail [required] mirth, [saying, ] Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.

Quia illic interrogaverunt nos, qui captivos duxerunt nos, verba cantionum: Et qui abduxerunt nos: Hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Sion.

4 How should we sing a song of Jehovah's upon a foreign soil?

Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?

5 If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [its skill];

Si oblitus fuero tui Ierusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea.

6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to my palate: if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

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

7 Remember, O Jehovah, against the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, Lay [it] bare, Lay [it] bare, down to its foundation!

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

8 Daughter of Babylon, who art to be laid waste, happy he that rendereth unto thee that which thou hast meted out to us.

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

9 Happy he that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.

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