Psalm 137 - Evangelical Heritage Version - 2021（EHV）

Beside the Rivers of BabylonSorrow for Jerusalem

1Beside the rivers of Babylon,

there we sat, and, yes, we wept as we remembered Zion.

2There we hung up our lyres on the willows,

3because there our captors asked us for words of a song,

and our tormentors asked for a happy song:

“Sing for us one of the songs of Zion!”

Zeal for Zion

4How can we sing a song of the Lord on foreign soil?

5If I forget you, Jerusalem,

may my right hand forget how to play music.

6May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth

if I do not remember you,

if I do not exalt Jerusalem above my highest joy.

Zeal for God's Vengeance

7Remember the day of Jerusalem, O Lord,

against the descendants of Edom who said,

“Tear it down, tear it down to its foundations!”

8Daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,

how blessed is the one who repays you

with the same deeds you did against us.

9How blessed is the one who seizes your children

and dashes them against the cliff.