Psalm 137. Super flumina.

1. By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, *
   when we remembered you, O Zion.
2. As for our harps, we hung them up *
   on the trees in the midst of that land.
3. For those who led us away captive asked us for a song, and our oppressors called for mirth: *
   Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4. How shall we sing the Lord's song *
   upon an alien soil.
5. If I forget you, O Jerusalem, *
   let my right hand forget its skill.
6. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, *
   if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy.
7. Remember the day of Jerusalem, O Lord, against the people of Edom, *
   who said, "Down with it! down with it! even to the ground!"
8. O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, *
   happy the one who pays you back for what you have done to us!
9. Happy shall he be who takes your little ones, *
   and dashes them against the rock!