Chapter 136

The Prophet describeth how lamentably the people in captivity of Babylon will bewail the want of means to serve God, and of their native soil: ℣.7 with just desire of their enemies' punishment.

1. 1

   A Psalm of David for Jeremy. Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: whilst we remembered Sion.

2. 2

   On the willows in the midst thereof, we hanged up our instruments.

3. 3

   Because there they that led us captive, demanded of us words of songs. And they that led us away: Sing ye an hymn to us of the songs of Sion.

4. 4

   How shall we sing the song of our Lord in a strange land?

5. 5

   If I shall forget thee, o Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.

6. 6

   Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I shall not set Jerusalem in the beginning of my joy.

7. 7

   Be mindful, o Lord, of the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: That say: Rase it, rase it, even unto the foundation thereof.

8. 8

   Daughter of Babylon miserable: blessed is he, that shall repay thee thy payment, which thou hast paid us.

9. 9

   Blessed is he that shall hold, and shall dash thy little ones against the rock.