PSALM 137

Lament over the Destruction of Jerusalem

Psalm 137:1 By the waters  of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.

Psalm 137:2 On the willows  there we hung up our lyres.

Psalm 137:3 For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

Psalm 137:4 How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?

Psalm 137:5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither!

Psalm 137:6 Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!

Psalm 137:7 Remember, O LORD, against the E'domites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, “Raze it, raze it! Down to its foundations!”

Psalm 137:8 O daughter of Babylon, you devastator!  Happy shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us!

Psalm 137:9 Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!