1By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered Sion.
2As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees, that are therein.
3Then they that led us away captive, required of us a song and melody in our heaviness: sing us one of the songs of Sion.
4How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?
5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.
6If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth: yea if I prefer not Jerusalem in my mirth.
7Remember the children of Edom, O LORD, in the day of Jerusalem, how they said: down with it, down with it: even to the ground.
8O daughter of Babylon, thou shalt come to misery thy self: yea happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9Blessed shall he be, that taketh thy children, and throweth them against the stones.