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Psalm 137

1 The people of God in their baniſhment ſeing Gods true religion decaie, liued in great anguiſh and ſorowe of heart: the which grief the Chaldeans did ſo litle pitie. 3 That thei rather increaſed the ſame darely with taūtes, reproches and blaſphemies againſt God 7 Wherefore the Iſraelites deſire God, firſt to puniſh the Edomites, who prouoked the Babylonians againſt them, 8 And moued by the Spirit of God, prophecie the deſtruction of Babylon, where thei were handled ſo tyrannouſly.
1.BY the riuers of Babél we ſate, and there we wept, when we remembred Zión.
2.We hanged our harpes vpõ the willowes in the middes thereof.
3.Then thei that led vs captiues, required of vs ſongs and mirth, when we had hanged vp our harpes, ſaying, Sing vs one of the ſongs of Zión.
4.How ſhal we ſing, ſaid we, a ſong of the Lord in a ſtrange land?
5.If I forget thee, ô Ieruſalém, let my right hand forget to play.
6.If I do not remembre thee, let my tongue cleaue to the rofe of my mouth: yea, if I preferre not Ieruſalém to my chief ioye.
7.Remember the children of Edôm, ô Lord, in the daie of Ieruſalém, which ſaid, Raſe it, raſe it to the fundacion thereof.
8.O daughter of Babél, worthie to be deſtroied, bleſſed ſhal he be ȳ rewardeth thee, as thou haſt ſerued vs.
9.Bleſſed ſhal he be that taketh & daſheth thy children againſt the ſtones.

Notes

1:a.
That is, we abode a long time: & albeit ȳ the countrei was pleaſant, yet colde it not ſtate our teares, nor turne vs frõ the true ſeruice of our God.
2:b.
To wit, of that countrey
3:c.
The Babylonians ſpake thus in mocking vs, as thogh by our ſilence we ſhulde ſignifie that we hoped no more in God.
5:d.
Albeit the faithful are touched with their particular griefs, yet the cõmune ſorowe of the Church is moſte grieuous vnto them, & are ſo he as the can not but remember and lament
6:e.
The decaie of Gods religion & their coũtrei was ſo grieuous, that no ioye colde make them glad, except it were reſtored.
7:f.
According as Ezekiel 25,13. & Ieremie 49, 7 verſ prophecied: & Abdias verſ 10 ſhewweth that the Edomites, w̄ came of Eſau, cõſpired with ȳ Babyloniãs againſt their brethren & kinſſolke
7:g.
Whẽ thou dideſt viſit Ieruſalém
9:h.
He alludeth to Iſaies prophecie chap 13, & 16 verſ promiſing good ſucces to Cyrus and Darius, whome ambition moued to fight againſt Babylón: but God vſed them as his rods to puniſh his enemies.