Psalms 137

¹Psalms 137:1. By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.²Psalms 137:2. There on the willows we hung our harps,³Psalms 137:3. for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”⁴Psalms 137:4. How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?⁵Psalms 137:5. If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.⁶Psalms 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!⁷Psalms 137:7. Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”⁸Psalms 137:8. O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.⁹Psalms 137:9. Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.