| Psa. 137:1 |
By the rivers of Babylon, / There we sat down; indeed, we wept / When we remembered Zion. |
| Psa. 137:2 |
On the willows in the midst of it / We hung up our lyres, |
| Psa. 137:3 |
For there our captors required of us songs, / And those who tormented us [required of us] mirth, [saying,] / Sing for us / One of the songs of Zion. |
| Psa. 137:4 |
How can we sing the song of Jehovah / In a foreign land? |
| Psa. 137:5 |
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, / Let my right hand forget [its skill.] |
| Psa. 137:6 |
Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, / If I do not remember you, / If I do not prefer Jerusalem / Above my chief joy. |
| Psa. 137:7 |
Remember, O Jehovah, / Against the children of Edom, / The day of Jerusalem, / Who said, Lay [it] bare! Lay [it] bare, / Down to its foundation! |
| Psa. 137:8 |
O daughter of Babylon, who are to be devastated, / Happy will he be who repays you / The recompense of what you have rendered to us. |
| Psa. 137:9 |
Happy will he be who seizes your little ones / And dashes them against the rock. |