Psalm 137 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

PSALM 137

¹ By Babel's streams we sat and wept, when Sion we thought on.

² In midst thereof we hang'd our harps the willow-trees upon.

³ For there a song required they, who did us captive bring: Our spoilers call'd for mirth, and said, A song of Sion sing.

⁴ O how the Lord's song shall we sing within a foreign land?

⁵ If thee, Jerus'lem, I forget, skill part from my right hand.

⁶ My tongue to my mouth's roof let cleave, if I do thee forget, Jerusalem, and thee above my chief joy do not set.

⁷ Remember Edom's children, Lord, who in Jerus'lems day, Ev'n unto its foundation, Raze, raze it quite, did say.

⁸ O daughter thou of Babylon, near to destruction; Bless'd shall he be that thee rewards, as thou to us hast done.

⁹ Yea, happy surely shall he be thy tender little ones Who shall lay hold upon, and them shall dash against the stones.