Psalms 137

1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

1 我们坐在巴比伦河畔， 想起锡安禁不住凄然泪下。

2 There on the willows we hung our harps,

2 我们把琴挂在柳树上。

3 for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”

3 因为俘虏我们的人要我们在那里唱歌， 掳掠我们的人要我们歌唱，说： “给我们唱一首锡安的歌。”

4 How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?

4 我们流落异邦， 怎能唱颂赞耶和华的歌呢？

5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.

5 耶路撒冷啊，倘若我忘了你， 情愿我的右手无法再弹琴；

6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

6 倘若我忘了你， 不以你为我的至爱， 情愿我的舌头不能再歌唱。

7 Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

7 耶和华啊， 求你记住耶路撒冷沦陷时以东人的行径。 他们喊道： “拆毁这城，把它夷为平地！”

8 O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

8 巴比伦城啊， 你快要灭亡了， 那向你以牙还牙为我们复仇的人有福了！

9 Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

9 那抓住你的婴孩摔在石头上的人有福了！