Psaumes 137.1
English standard version

Souffrance des exilés

¹ By the waters of Babylon,
there we sat down and wept,
when we remembered Zion.
² On the willows 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 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 Let my 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 Edomites
the day of Jerusalem,
how they said, Lay it bare, lay it bare,
down to its foundations!
⁸ O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,
blessed shall he be who repays you
with what you have done to us!
⁹ Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rock!