Psalm 137 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

By the rivers of Babylon,

There we sat down, yea, we wept,

When we remembered Zion.

Upon the willows in the midst thereof

We hanged up our harps.

For there they that led us captive required of us songs,

And they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying,

Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

How shall we sing Jehovah’s song

In a foreign land?

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,

Let my right hand forget her skill.

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,

If I remember thee not;

If I prefer not Jerusalem

Above my chief joy.

Remember, O Jehovah, against the children of Edom

The day of Jerusalem;

Who said, Rase it, rase it,

Even to the foundation thereof.

O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed,

Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee

As thou hast served us.

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones

Against the rock.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.