Psalm 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
Psalm 137:2
There on the willows we hung our harps,
Psalm 137:3
for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”
Psalm 137:4
How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?
Psalm 137:5
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.
Psalm 137:6
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!
Psalm 137:7
Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
Psalm 137:8
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
Psalm 137:9
Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.