Psalm CXXXVII.

* By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept,

When we remembered Zion.

2  We hanged our harps

Upon the awillows in the midst thereof.

3  For there they that carried us away captive required of us * a song;

And they that * wasted us required of us mirth,

Saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

4  bHow shall we sing the Lord’s song

In a * strange land?

5  If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,

bbLet my right hand forget her cunning.

6  If I do not remember thee,

Let my ctongue cleave to the roof of my mouth;

If I prefer not Jerusalem above * my chief joy.

7  Remember, O Lord, dthe children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem;

Who said, * Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

8  O daughter of Babylon, ewho art to be * destroyed;

Happy shall he be, * gthat hrewardeth thee

As thou hast served us.

9  Happy shall he be that taketh

And idasheth thy little ones against * the stones.