Psalms 137

¹ By the streams of Babylon, There we sat down and lamented, While we remembered Zion. ² On the oleanders in its midst We hung our harps, ³ For there our captors asked us for words of song, And our enslavers for rejoicing: Sing for us from a song of Zion. ⁴ How should we sing a song of Yahweh On foreign ground? ⁵ If I should forget you, Jerusalem, May my right hand forget its skill. ⁶ May my tongue cling to my palate, If I should not remember you, If I should not elevate Jerusalem Over my principal rejoicings. ⁷ Remember, O Yahweh, against Edom's sons, In Jerusalem's day, Those who were saying, Raze it, raze it, Even to its foundation. ⁸ Daughter of Babylon, the devastator, Happy is he who shall repay you With your dealing which you dealt to us. ⁹ Happy is he who shall hold and shatter your unweaned children Against the crag.