Psalm 137

¹By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept

when we remembered Zion.

²There on the poplars

we hung our harps,

³for there our captors asked us for songs,

our tormentors demanded songs of joy;

they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

⁴How can we sing the songs of the Lord

while in a foreign land?

⁵If I forget you, Jerusalem,

may my right hand forget its skill.

⁶May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth

if I do not remember you,

if I do not consider Jerusalem

my highest joy.

⁷Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did

on the day Jerusalem fell.

“Tear it down,” they cried,

“tear it down to its foundations!”

⁸Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,

happy is the one who repays you

according to what you have done to us.

⁹Happy is the one who seizes your infants

and dashes them against the rocks.