Psalms 137

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

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

2On willows in its midst we hung our harps.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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