Psalmorum 136
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1Psalmus David, Jeremiæ. [Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus, cum recordaremur Sion.
1Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion:
2In salicibus in medio ejus suspendimus organa nostra:
2On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.
3quia illic interrogaverunt nos, qui captivos duxerunt nos, verba cantionum; et qui abduxerunt nos: Hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Sion.
3For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion.
4Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?
4How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?
5Si oblitus fuero tui, Jerusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea.
5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.
6Adhæreat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui; si non proposuero Jerusalem in principio lætitiæ meæ.
6Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.
7Memor esto, Domine, filiorum Edom, in die Jerusalem: qui dicunt: Exinanite, exinanite usque ad fundamentum in ea.
7Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
8Filia Babylonis misera ! beatus qui retribuet tibi retributionem tuam quam retribuisti nobis.
8O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.
9Beatus qui tenebit, et allidet parvulos tuos ad petram.]
9Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock.
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