Sálmarnir 137
Icelandic Bible
137 Við Babýlons fljót, þar sátum vér og grétum, er vér minntumst Síonar.
2 Á pílviðina þar hengdum vér upp gígjur vorar.
3 Því að herleiðendur vorir heimtuðu söngljóð af oss og kúgarar vorir kæti: "Syngið oss Síonarkvæði!"
4 Hvernig ættum vér að syngja Drottins ljóð í öðru landi?
5 Ef ég gleymi þér, Jerúsalem, þá visni mín hægri hönd.
6 Tunga mín loði mér við góm, ef ég man eigi til þín, ef Jerúsalem er eigi allra besta yndið mitt.
7 Mun þú Edóms niðjum, Drottinn, óheilladag Jerúsalem, þegar þeir æptu: "Rífið, rífið allt niður til grunna!"
8 Babýlonsdóttir, þú sem tortímir! Heill þeim, er geldur þér fyrir það sem þú hefir gjört oss!
9 Heill þeim er þrífur ungbörn þín og slær þeim niður við stein.
Psalm 137
New King James Version
Longing for Zion in a Foreign Land
137 By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down, yea, we wept
When we remembered Zion.
2 We hung our harps
Upon the willows in the midst of it.
3 For there those who carried us away captive asked of us a song,
And those who (A)plundered us requested mirth,
Saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4 How shall we sing the Lord’s song
In a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
Let my right hand forget its skill!
6 If I do not remember you,
Let my (B)tongue cling to the roof of my mouth—
If I do not exalt Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O Lord, against (C)the sons of Edom
The day of Jerusalem,
Who said, [a]“Raze it, raze it,
To its very foundation!”
8 O daughter of Babylon, (D)who are to be destroyed,
Happy the one (E)who repays you as you have served us!
9 Happy the one who takes and (F)dashes
Your little ones against the rock!
Footnotes
- Psalm 137:7 Lit. Make bare
Psalm 137
English Standard Version
How Shall We Sing the Lord's Song?
137 By the waters of Babylon,
there we sat down and wept,
when we remembered Zion.
2 On the willows[a] there
we hung up our lyres.
3 For there our captors
required of us songs,
and our tormentors, mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
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!
Footnotes
- Psalm 137:2 Or poplars
by Icelandic Bible Society
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