Psalm 137–138

PSALM 137

We Wept When We Remembered Zion

¹By the ^arivers of Babylon,

There we sat and also ^bwept,

When we remembered Zion.

²Upon the ^1awillows in the midst of it

We ^bhung our lyres.

³For there our captors ^aasked us about the words of a song,

And ^bour tormentors asked joyfully, saying,

“Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.”

⁴How can we sing a song of ^aYahweh

In a foreign land?

⁵If I ^aforget you, O Jerusalem,

May my right hand ¹forget her skill.

⁶May my ^atongue cling to the roof of my mouth

If I do not remember you,

If I do not ^1bexalt Jerusalem

Above my chief joy.

⁷Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of ^aEdom

The day of Jerusalem,

Who said, “Tear it down! Tear it down

^bTo its very foundation.”

⁸O daughter of Babylon, you ^adevastated one,

How blessed will be the one who ^brepays you

With ¹the recompense with which you have recompensed us.

⁹How blessed will be the one who seizes and ^adashes your infants

Against the cliff.

PSALM 138

I Will Give Thanks to Your Name

Of David.

^1aI will give You thanks with all my heart;

I will sing praises to You before the ^bgods.

²I will worship ^atoward Your holy temple

And ^bgive thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your ¹truth;

For You have ^cmagnified Your ²word ³according to all Your name.

³On the day I ^acalled, You answered me;

You made me bold with ^bstrength in my soul.

^4aAll the kings of the earth, O Yahweh, will give You thanks,

When they hear the words of Your mouth.

⁵And they will ^asing of the ways of Yahweh,

For ^bgreat is the glory of Yahweh.

⁶For ^aYahweh is high,

Yet He ^bsees the lowly,

But the ^cone who exalts himself He knows from afar.

⁷Though I ^awalk in the midst of ¹distress, You will ^2brevive me;

You will ^cstretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies,

And Your right hand will ^dsave me.

⁸Yahweh will ^aaccomplish what concerns me;

O Yahweh, Your ^blovingkindness endures forever;

^cDo not fail the ^dworks of Your hands.