Psalm 137:1-9 - Lament During The Babylonian Exile

¹ By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down and wept
when we remembered Zion.
² There we hung up our lyres
on the poplar trees,
³ for our captors there asked us for songs,
and our tormentors, for rejoicing:
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

⁴ How can we sing the Lord’s song
on foreign soil?
⁵ If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.
⁶ May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

⁷ Remember, Lord, what the Edomites said
that day at Jerusalem:
“Destroy it! Destroy it
down to its foundations!”
⁸ Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.
⁹ Happy is he who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rocks.