Psalm 137

How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?

1 By the waters of Babylon,

there we sat down and wept,

when we remembered Zion.

2 On the willows*137:2 Or poplars there

we hung up our lyres.

3 For there our captors

required of us songs,

and our tormentors, mirth, saying,

"Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

4 *[Neh. 2:3]How shall we sing the Lord’s song

in a foreign land?

5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,

*[Ps. 76:5]let my right hand forget its skill!

6 Let my *Job 29:10;Ezek. 3:26tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,

if I do not remember you,

if I do not set Jerusalem

above my highest joy!

7 Remember, O Lord, against the *Isa. 34:5,6;Lam. 4:21,22;Ezek. 35:2;[Amos 1:11,12]; See Jer. 49:7-22; Ezek. 25:12-14; Obad. 8-14Edomites

*See Job 18:20the day of Jerusalem,

how they said, *Hab. 3:13;Zeph. 2:14"Lay it bare, lay it bare,

down to its foundations!"

8 O daughter of Babylon, *Isa. 21:9;47:1-15;Jer. 25:12;50:1-46;51:1-64;See Isa. 13:1-22doomed to be destroyed,

blessed shall he be who *Jer. 51:24,56;[Ps. 28:4]repays you

with what you have done to us!

9 Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones

and *2 Kgs. 8:12;Isa. 13:16;Hos. 10:14;Nah. 3:10dashes them against the rock!