Psalm 137 - The Scriptures 2009

¹ By the rivers of Baḇel, There we sat down and we wept As we remembered Tsiyon.

² We hung our lyres Upon the willows in the midst of it.

³ For there our captors Asked us for the words of a song, And our plunderers for rejoicing, saying, “Sing to us a song of Tsiyon!”

⁴ How could we sing the song of יהוה On foreign soil?

⁵ If I forget you, O Yerushalayim, Let my right hand forget.

⁶ Let my tongue cleave to my palate, If I do not remember you, If I do not exalt Yerushalayim Above my chief joy.

⁷ Remember, O יהוה, against the sons of Eḏom The day of Yerushalayim, Who said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare, To its foundation!”

⁸ O daughter of Baḇel, who are to be destroyed, Blessed is he who repays you your deed, What you did to us!

⁹ Blessed is he who shall take And dash your little ones against the rock.