^4 (A)How shall we sing the Lord's song
    in a foreign land?
⁵ If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
    ^(B)let my right hand forget its skill!
⁶ Let my ^(C)tongue 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 ^(D)Edomites
    ^(E)the day of Jerusalem,
how they said, ^(F)“Lay it bare, lay it bare,
    down to its foundations!”
⁸ O daughter of Babylon, ^(G)doomed to be destroyed,
    blessed shall he be who ^(H)repays you
    with what you have done to us!
⁹ Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
    and ^(I)dashes them against the rock!

¹³ What can I say for you, ^(A)to what compare you,
    O daughter of Jerusalem?
^(B)What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you,
    O virgin daughter of Zion?
^(C)For your ruin is vast as the sea;
    who can heal you?

^14 (D)Your prophets have seen for you
    false and deceptive visions;
^(E)they have not exposed your iniquity
    to ^(F)restore your fortunes,
^(G)but have seen for you ^(H)oracles
    that are false and misleading.

¹⁵ All who pass along the way
    clap their hands at you;
^(I)they hiss and wag their heads
    at the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
    ^(J)the perfection of beauty,
    ^(K)the joy of all the earth?”

^16 (L)All your enemies
    rail against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
    they cry: “We ^(M)have swallowed her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
    now we have it; ^(N)we see it!”

¹⁷ The Lord has done what he purposed;
    he has carried out ^(O)his word,
which he commanded ^(P)long ago;
    ^(Q)he has thrown down ^(R)without pity;
^(S)he has made the enemy rejoice over you
    and exalted the ^(T)might of your foes.

¹⁸ Their heart cried to the Lord.
    O ^(U)wall of the daughter of Zion,
^(V)let tears stream down like a torrent
    ^(W)day and night!
^(X)Give yourself no rest,
    ^(Y)your eyes no respite!

¹⁹ “Arise, ^(Z)cry out in the night,
    at the beginning of the night watches!
^(AA)Pour out your heart like water
    before the presence of the Lord!
^(AB)Lift your hands to him
    for the lives of your children,
^(AC)who faint for hunger
    at the head of every street.”

²⁰ Look, O Lord, and see!
    ^(AD)With whom have you dealt thus?
^(AE)Should women eat the fruit of their womb,
    the children of ^(AF)their tender care?
Should ^(AG)priest and prophet be killed
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?

²¹ In the dust of the streets
    ^(AH)lie the young and the old;
^(AI)my young women and my young men
    have fallen by the sword;
^(AJ)you have killed them in the day of your anger,
    slaughtering ^(AK)without pity.

²² You summoned as if to ^(AL)a festival day
    ^(AM)my terrors on every side,
^(AN)and on the day of the anger of the Lord
    no one escaped or survived;
^(AO)those whom I held and raised
    my enemy destroyed.

³ But you, O Lord, are ^(E)a shield ^(F)about me,
    my glory, and ^(G)the lifter of my head.
⁴ I ^(H)cried aloud to the Lord,
    and he ^(I)answered me from his ^(J)holy hill. Selah

⁵ I ^(K)lay down and slept;
    I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.
⁶ I ^(L)will not be afraid of many thousands of people
    who have ^(M)set themselves against me all around.

^7 (N)Arise, O Lord!
    Save me, O my God!
For you ^(O)strike all my enemies on the cheek;
    you ^(P)break the teeth of the wicked.

^8 (Q)Salvation belongs to the Lord;
    your blessing be on your people! Selah

⁵ “Moreover, wine^[a] is ^(A)a traitor,
    an arrogant man who is never at rest.^[b]
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
    like death ^(B)he has never enough.
^(C)He gathers for himself all nations
    and collects as his own all peoples.”

^(E)“Woe to him ^(F)who heaps up what is not his own—
    for ^(G)how long?—
    and ^(H)loads himself with pledges!”
^7 (I)Will not your debtors suddenly arise,
    and those awake who will make you tremble?
    Then you will be spoil for them.
^8 (J)Because you have plundered many nations,
    all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,
^(K)for the blood of man and ^(L)violence to the earth,
    to cities and all who dwell in them.

^9 (M)“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
    ^(N)to ^(O)set his nest on high,
    to be safe from the reach of harm!
¹⁰ You have devised shame for your house
    ^(P)by cutting off many peoples;
    you have forfeited your life.
¹¹ For ^(Q)the stone will cry out from the wall,
    and the beam from the woodwork respond.