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137:1  By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
137:2  There on the poplars we hung our harps,
137:3  for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, ‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion!’
137:4  How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land?
137:5  If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill.
137:6  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.
137:7  Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. ‘Tear it down,’ they cried, ‘tear it down to its foundations!’
137:8  Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us.
137:9  Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.