Psalm 137:1-4

Common English Bible

137 Alongside Babylon’s streams,
    there we sat down,
    crying because we remembered Zion.
² We hung our lyres up
    in the trees there
³     because that’s where our captors asked us to sing;
    our tormentors requested songs of joy:
    “Sing us a song about Zion!” they said.
⁴ But how could we possibly sing
    the Lord’s song on foreign soil?