• An Experience of the Captivity.

  • 1 By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion.
  • 2 Upon the willows in the midst of it We hung our harps.
  • 3 For there our captors demanded of us songs, And our tormentors, jubilation, saying, “Sing for us one of the songs of Zion!”
  • 4 How can we sing the Lord’s song In a foreign land?
  • 5 If I forget you, Jerusalem, May my right hand forget its 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, Lord, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Those who said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare To its foundation!”
  • 8 Daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, Blessed will be one who repays you With the retribution with which you have repaid us.
  • 9 Blessed will be one who seizes and dashes your children Against the rock.