Psalms 137 — AAB

By the Rivers of Babylon

137Verse 1By the rivers of Babylon we sat and weptwhen we remembered Zion.^{Verse 2}There on the willows⁺we hung our harps,^{Verse 3}for there our captors requested a song;our tormentors demanded songs of joy:
“Sing us a song of Zion.”^{Verse 4}How can we sing a song of the LORDin a foreign land?^{Verse 5}If I forget you, O Jerusalem,may my right hand cease to function.^{Verse 6}May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouthif I do not remember you,if I do not exalt Jerusalemas my greatest joy!^{Verse 7}Remember, O LORD,the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell:“Destroy it,” they said,“tear it down to its foundations!”^{Verse 8}O Daughter of Babylon,doomed to destruction,blessed is he who repays youas you have done to us.^{Verse 9}Blessed is he who seizes your infantsand dashes them against the rocks.