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- By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion.
- Upon the willows in the midst of it We hung our harps.
- For there our captors demanded of us songs, And our tormentors mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion."
- How can we sing the LORD'S song In a foreign land?
- If I forget you, O Jerusalem, May my right hand forget her skill.
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- By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
- There on the poplars we hung our harps,
- for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
- How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?
- If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill .
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- May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth If I do not remember you, If I do not exalt Jerusalem Above my chief joy.
- Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, "Raze it, raze it To its very foundation."
- O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, How blessed will be the one who repays you With the recompense with which you have repaid us.
- How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock.
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- May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.
- Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. "Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundations!"
- O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us-
- he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
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