• We Wept When We Remembered Zion

  • 1 By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat and also wept, When we remembered Zion.
  • 2 Upon the willows in the midst of it We hung our lyres.
  • 3 For there our captors asked us about the words of a song, And our tormentors asked joyfully, saying, “Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.”
  • 4 How can we sing a song of Yahweh In a foreign land?
  • 5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, May my right hand forget her skill.
  • 6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth If I do not remember you, If I do not exalt Jerusalem Above my chief joy.
  • 7 Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, “Tear it down! Tear it down To its very foundation.”
  • 8 O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, How blessed will be the one who repays you With the recompense with which you have recompensed us.
  • 9 How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your infants Against the cliff.