Psalms 136

1Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion:

Psalmus David, Jeremiæ. Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus, cum recordaremur Sion.

2On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.

In salicibus in medio ejus suspendimus organa nostra:

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.

quia illic interrogaverunt nos, qui captivos duxerunt nos, verba cantionum; et qui abduxerunt nos: Hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Sion.

4How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?

Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?

5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.

Si oblitus fuero tui, Jerusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea.

6Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.

Adhæreat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui; si non proposuero Jerusalem in principio lætitiæ meæ.

7Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Memor esto, Domine, filiorum Edom, in die Jerusalem: qui dicunt: Exinanite, exinanite usque ad fundamentum in ea.

8O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.

Filia Babylonis misera ! beatus qui retribuet tibi retributionem tuam quam retribuisti nobis.

9Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock.

Beatus qui tenebit, et allidet parvulos tuos ad petram.