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 song and they that wasted 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 strange 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 chief 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.

8

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed happy [shall he be], that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

9

Happy [shall he be], that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.