Psalms 137 King James Version

¹ By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept,
When we remembered Zion.

² We hanged our harps
Upon the willows in the midst thereof.

³ For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; And they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying ,
Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

⁴ How shall we sing
The LORD's song in a strange land?

⁵ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,
Let my right hand forget her cunning .

⁶ If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth;
If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

⁷ Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem;
Who said, Rase it , rase it , even to the foundation thereof.

⁸ O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed;
Happy shall he be , that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

⁹ Happy shall he be , that taketh and dasheth thy little ones
Against the stones.