Salmos 137

1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down.

Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

2 On the willows in that land,

we hung up our harps.

3 For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs.

Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy:

"Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

4 How can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land?

5 If I forget you, Jerusalem,

let my right hand forget its skill.

6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you,

if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

7 Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem,

who said, "Raze it!

Raze it even to its foundation!"

8 Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction,

he will be happy who repays you,

as you have done to us.

9 Happy shall he be,

who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

He Tangi o te Iwi Īharaira kei te Manene

1 I te taha o ngā wai o Papurōna –

noho ana tātou i reira, āe, tangi ana tātou,

i a tātou i mahara ai ki Hiona.

2 Whakairia ake e tātou ā tātou hāpa

ki runga ki ngā wirou i waenganui o reira.

3 Nō te mea i tono i reira te hunga nāna tātou i herehere ki ētahi waiata i a tātou,

me te hunga nāna tātou i tūkino i tono mai he hari i a tātou, i mea mai,

"Waiatatia mai ki a mātou tētahi o ngā waiata o Hiona!"

4 Me pēhea mātou ka waiata ai i te waiata a Ihowā

i te whenua tauhou?

5 Ki te wareware ahau ki a koe, e Hiruhārama,

kia wareware tōku ringa matau ki tāna mahi.

6 Ki te kore ahau e mahara ki a koe,

kia piri tōku arero ki tōku ngao,

ki te kore ahau e whakanui i Hiruhārama

ki runga ake i tāku mea i tino hari ai.

7 E Ihowā, maharatia ngā tama a Ēroma

i te rā o Hiruhārama,

tā rātou meatanga, "Whakahoroa! Whakahoroa,

ā taea rawatia anō tōna tūranga!"

8 E te tamāhine o Papurōna, meāke nei whakangaromia,

ka hari te tangata e utua ai koe

mō tāu i mea ai ki a mātou!

9 Ka hari te tangata e hopu ana,

e tā ana i āu mea nohinohi ki runga ki te kōhatu!