Liber Psalmorum, 137

1. Super flumina Babylonis, illic sedimus et flevimus, cum recordaremur Sion.

1. By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.

2. In salicibus in medio eius suspendimus citharas nostras.

2. On the willows there we hung up our lyres.

3. Quia illic rogaverunt nos, qui captivos duxerunt nos, verba cantionum, et, qui affligebant nos, laetitiam: “Cantate nobis de canticis Sion”.

3. For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

4. Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?

4. How shall we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land?

5. Si oblitus fuero tui, Ierusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea;

5. If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither!

6. adhaereat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui, si non praeposuero Ierusalem in capite laetitiae meae.

6. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!

7. Memor esto, Domine, adversus filios Edom diei Ierusalem; qui dicebant: “Exinanite, exinanite usque ad fundamentum in ea”.

7. Remember, O LORD, against the E'domites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, "Rase it, rase it! Down to its foundations!"

8. Filia Babylonis devastans, beatus, qui retribuet tibi retributionem tuam, quam retribuisti nobis;

8. O daughter of Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall he be who requites you with what you have done to us!

9. beatus, qui tenebit et allidet parvulos tuos ad petram.

9. Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!