Psalm 137 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.