詩篇 137

1 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

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

2 われらそのあたりの柳にわが琴をかけたり

On the willows in that land, we hung up our harps.

3 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

For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

4 われら外邦にありていかでヱホバの歌をうたはんや

How can we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?

5 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

If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.

6 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

Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

7 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

Remember, LORD, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”

8 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

Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us.

9 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

Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.