| Chapter 136 |
1 | Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion: |
2 | On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments. |
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. |
4 | How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land? |
5 | If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten. |
6 | Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy. |
7 | Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. |
8 | O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us. |
9 | Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock. |