Psalm 137 - Modern English Version

¹ By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion.

² Upon the willows in the midst of it we hung our harps.

³ For there, those who carried us away captive required of us songs, and our plunderers, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

⁴ How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a foreign land?

⁵ If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning!

⁶ If I do not remember you, let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my highest joy.

⁷ Remember, O  Lord, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it, raze it, to its foundation!”

⁸ O daughter of Babylon, destined to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who rewards you as you have served us!

⁹ Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rocks!