Psalms 137

To David through Jeremiah.

137:1At the rivers of Babylon, there we sat; and we wept in our remembering Zion.

137:2At the willows in the midst of it we hung our instruments.

137:3For there the ones capturing us asked us of words of odes; and the ones having taken us away asked for a hymn -- Sing to us from the odes of Zion!

137:4How should we sing the ode of the lord upon an alien land?

137:5If I should forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand be forgotten.

137:6May my tongue cleave to my throat if I do not remember you; if I do not prefer Jerusalem as in the beginning of my gladness.

137:7Remember, O lord, the sons of Edom in the day of Jerusalem! The ones saying, Empty it out, empty it out unto its foundations!

137:8The daughter of Babylon, the miserable; blessed is the one who shall recompense you with your recompense, which he was recompensing against us.

137:9Blessed is the one who shall hold and dash your infants against the rock.