1750 Challoner Revision of the Douay-Rheims (DR)

Psalms 137

1 The constancy of the Jews in captivity. 7 The prophet curseth Edom and Babel.

 137:1 ¶ Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion:

 137:2 On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.

 137:3 For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion.

 137:4 How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?

 137:5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.

 137:6 Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.

 137:7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

 137:8 O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.

 137:9 Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock.