Psalm 137

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.