1.By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2.We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3.For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song1; and they that wasted2 us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4.How shall we sing the LORD’S song in a strange3 land?
5.If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
6.If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief4 joy.
7.Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.5
8.O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed6; happy shall he be, that rewardeth7 thee as thou hast served us.
9.Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones8.