Psalms 137
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
1I will praise thee, O lord, with my whole heart: for thou hast heard the words of my mouth. I will sing praise to thee in the sight of his angels:
2Upon the willows in the midst thereof we hanged up our harps.
2I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to thy name. For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy holy name above all.
3For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, and our tormentors asked of us mirth: 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.'
3In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me: thou shall multiply strength in my soul.
4How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land?
4May all the kings of the earth give glory to thee: for they have heard all the words of thy mouth.
5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
5And let them sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord.
6Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy.
6For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off.
7Remember, O LORD, against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said: 'Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.'
7If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken me: and thou hast stretched forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies: and thy right hand hath saved me.
8O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that repayeth thee as thou hast served us.
8The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the work of thy hands.
9Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.
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