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| The Book of Psalms 137 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Basic English Online Bible (BEN) | ||||||||||||||||
| Psalms 137:1 | By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion, | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 137:2 | Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 137:3 | For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 137:4 | How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land? | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 137:5 | If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 137:6 | If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 137:7 | O Lord, keep in mind against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; how they said, Let it be uncovered, uncovered even to its base. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 137:8 | O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 137:9 | Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks. | |||||||||||||||
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