Psalms 137 (KJV)

¹By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

²We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

³For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. ^{a song: Heb. the words of a song} ^{wasted: Heb. laid us on heaps}

⁴How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land? ^{strange: Heb. land of a stranger?}

⁵If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

⁶If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. ^{my chief: Heb. the head of my joy}

⁷Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. ^{Rase it: Heb. Make bare}

⁸O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. ^{destroyed: Heb. wasted} ^{rewardeth: Heb. recompenseth unto thee thy deed which thou didst to us}

⁹Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. ^{the stones: Heb. the rock}