Psalms - Chapter 137 | English Standard Version

  • 1. By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.
  • 2. On the willows there we hung up our lyres.
  • 3. For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
  • 4. How shall we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land?
  • 5. If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill!
  • 6. Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!
  • 7. Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, "Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!"
  • 8. O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us!
  • 9. Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!
أعلى