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New Testament
Psalm 137
Psalm 137
Beside the Rivers of Babylon
Sorrow for Jerusalem
there we sat, and, yes, we wept as we remembered Zion.
2There we hung up our lyres on the willows,
3because there our captors asked us for words of a song,
and our tormentors asked for a happy song:
“Sing for us one of the songs of Zion!”
Zeal for Zion
4How can we sing a song of the Lord on foreign soil?
5If I forget you, Jerusalem,
6May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not exalt Jerusalem above my highest joy.
Zeal for God's Vengeance
7Remember the day of Jerusalem, O Lord,
“Tear it down, tear it down to its foundations!”
8Daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,
how blessed is the one who repays you
with the same deeds you did against us.
9How blessed is the one who seizes your children
and dashes them against the cliff.