Psalms 137

super flumina Babylonis ibi sedimus et flevimus cum recordaremur Sion

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

super salices in medio eius suspendimus citharas nostras

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

quoniam ibi interrogaverunt nos qui captivos duxerunt nos verba carminis et qui adfligebant nos laeti canite nobis de canticis Sion

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.

quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena

How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?

si oblitus fuero tui Hierusalem in oblivione sit dextera mea

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

adhereat lingua mea gutturi meo si non recordatus fuero tui si non praeposuero Hierusalem in principio laetitiae meae

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

memento Domine filiorum Edom in diem Hierusalem dicentium evacuate evacuate usque ad fundamentum eius

Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

filia Babylon vastata beatus qui retribuet tibi vicissitudinem tuam quam retribuisti nobis

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

beatus qui tenebit et adlidet parvulos tuos ad petram

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.