Psalm 137 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

On the willow trees in the midst of Babylon

We hung our harps.

For there they who took us captive demanded of us a song with words,

And our tormentors [who made a mockery of us demanded] amusement, saying,

“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

How can we sing the LORD’S song

In a strange and foreign land?

If I forget you, O Jerusalem,

Let my right hand forget [her skill with the harp].

Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth

If I do not remember you,

If I do not prefer Jerusalem

Above my chief joy.

Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom,

The day of [the fall of] Jerusalem,

Who said “Down, down [with her]

To her very foundation.”

O daughter of Babylon, you devastator,

How blessed will be the one

Who repays you [with destruction] as you have repaid us.

How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones

Against the rock.