Psalm 137. Super flumina.

1. BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, *
   when we remembered thee, O Sion.
2. As for our harps, we hanged them up *
   upon the trees that are therein.
3. For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness: *
   Sing us one of the songs of Sion.
4. How shall we sing the Lord's song *
   in a strange land?
5. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, *
   let my right hand forget her cunning.
6. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; *
   yea, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
7. Remember the children of Edom, O Lord, in the day of Jerusalem; *
   how they said, Down with it, down with it, even to the ground.
8. O daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery; *
   yea, happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9. Blessed shall he be that taketh thy children, *
   and throweth them against the stones.