PSALM 137

An Experience of the Captivity.

1 By the arivers of Babylon,

There we sat down and bwept,

When we remembered Zion.

2 Upon the 1awillows in the midst of it

We bhung our 2harps.

3 For there our captors 1ademanded of us 2songs,

And bour tormentors mirth, saying,

“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

4 How can we sing athe Lord’s song

In a foreign land?

5 If I aforget you, O Jerusalem,

May my right hand 1forget her skill.

6 May 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.

7 Remember, O Lord, against the sons of aEdom

The day of Jerusalem,

Who said, “Raze it, raze it

bTo its very foundation.”

8 O daughter of Babylon, you 1adevastated one,

How blessed will be the one who brepays you

With 2the recompense with which you have repaid us.

9 How blessed will be the one who seizes and adashes your little ones

Against the rock.