Psalm 137 (New International Version)

Psalm 137

 ¹ By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
       when we remembered Zion.

 ² There on the poplars
       we hung our harps,

 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!"

 ⁴ How can we sing the songs of the LORD
       while in a foreign land?

 ⁵ If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
       may my right hand forget its skill .

 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.

 ⁷ Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites did
       on the day Jerusalem fell.
       "Tear it down," they cried,
       "tear it down to its foundations!"

 ⁸ O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction,
       happy is he who repays you
       for what you have done to us-

 ⁹ he who seizes your infants
       and dashes them against the rocks.